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Setup SQL 2005 Express to email me when job completes sucessfully

I have a couple SQL Express 2005 installs and have a backup script that runs on a daily basis without any issues. I would like the job to email me when it finished regardless if it completes sucessfully or fails. Is this possible without SQL mail and installing outlook?

DECLARE @BackupFile varchar(255), @DB varchar(30), @Description varchar(255), @LogFile varchar(50)
DECLARE @Name varchar(30), @MediaName varchar(30), @BackupDirectory nvarchar(200) 
SET @BackupDirectory = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\'
--Add a list of all databases you don't want to backup to this.
DECLARE Database_CURSOR CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM sysdatabases WHERE name <> 'Northwind'
OPEN Database_Cursor
FETCH next FROM Database_CURSOR INTO @DB
WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
 
    BEGIN
    	SET @Name = @DB + '( Daily BACKUP )'
    	SET @MediaName = @DB + '_Dump' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112)
    	SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' + 
    		CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
    	SET @Description = 'Normal' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.' 
 
    	IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM msdb.dbo.backupset WHERE database_name = @DB) > 0 OR @DB = 'master'
    		BEGIN
    			SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' + 
    				CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
    			--SET some more pretty stuff for sql server.
    			SET @Description = 'Full' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.' 
    		END	
    	ELSE
    		BEGIN
    			SET @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @DB + '_' + 'Full' + '_' + 
    				CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , 112) + '.bak'
    			--SET some more pretty stuff for sql server.
    			SET @Description = 'Full' + ' BACKUP at ' + CONVERT(varchar, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '.' 
    		END
    		BACKUP DATABASE @DB TO DISK = @BackupFile 
    		WITH NAME = @Name, DESCRIPTION = @Description , 
    		MEDIANAME = @MediaName, MEDIADESCRIPTION = @Description , 
    		STATS = 10
    	FETCH next FROM Database_CURSOR INTO @DB
 
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup',N'bak',N'2008-09-16T12:40:57' 
 
 
END
CLOSE Database_Cursor
DEALLOCATE Database_Cursor

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Mark Wills

Can try using CDO... and Office Automation procedures

Declare @OA_Status int
Declare @MailID int
Declare @SenderAddress varchar(100)
Declare @RecipientAddress varchar(100)
Declare @Subject varchar(200)
Declare @Body varchar(8000)
declare @CC varchar(100)
declare @BCC varchar(100)
 
set @SenderAddress='mark.wills@somewhere.else' 
set @RecipientAddress = 'mark.wills@somewhere.else' 
set @Subject='SQL Mail Test'
set @body='Hello, this is a test email from SQL Server'
set @CC  = null
set @BCC  = null
 
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OACreate 'CDO.Message', @MailID OUT
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'From',@senderaddress
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'TextBody', @Body
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'BCC',@BCC
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'CC', @CC
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'Subject', @Subject
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OASetProperty @MailID, 'To', @recipientAddress
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OAMethod @MailID, 'Send', NULL
EXEC @OA_Status = sp_OADestroy @MailID

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HNMIS

ASKER

ok, I ran the above script and the command completes successfully but I never recieve an email. How do I tell it to use a specific exchange server?

Mark Wills

Have a look at setting up the configuration : http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dev/sending_sql_notifications_CDOSYS_p1.aspx

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Jim P.

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Mark Wills

That does work well... Used to use it some time back, and had almost forgotten all about it.