[dba-SQLServer] Another good one from Francisco

Mark Breen marklbreen at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 02:58:56 CDT 2009


Hello Francisco,
Phew, thanks, I thought I was missing something about SQL 2005.

Again, thanks for the email.  A few years ago, I had to wait a year to get
outlook installed on a SQL 2000 machine, if I had had blat then...

Mark



2009/6/24 Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com>

> Blat is great for Sql Server 2000 simply because you can implement email
> for
> your server without also installing Outlook.  I just don't like Outlook as
> an email client.  It is buggy for me, and has always caused me pains.  With
> Google's Desktop Search (or Vista's indexing search) I was finally able to
> get a hold of all my email vs the sloooooow email search from Outlook.
> I personally would NOT use the blat solution on a Sql Server 2005 system.
>  Database Mail is sooo much easier and nicer to use.  Blat is a great tool
> for any of your legacy 2000 systems.  Here were I work at I have a mixture
> of Sql Server 2000 / 2005 and (recently 2008) servers.  The 2000 servers at
> this point are not ready to be retired, the hardware is still under
> warranty
> and has plenty of redundancy.  However, Email is required from these
> systems
> and I've been using Blat for a number of years on these systems :).
>
>
> -Francisco
> http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Susan and Francisco
> > I wish I know about blat a few years ago when I was struggling to get
> > outlook installed on a SQL Server.
> >
> > With 2005 though, is there some hidden benefit that I am missing in  your
> > blat code, over the following code.
> >
> > I have met quite a few people of the the last ten years that do not like
> to
> > use SQL Sever mail, but I have used it with never one complaint for close
> > to
> > ten years now.  For me it gives me very quick to implement email
> > facilities.
> >
> > Thanks for blat,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
> >     @profile_name = 'Server4DBMail',
> >  @recipients = 'mark.breen at gmail.com',
> >     @query = 'Select * from MyTable',
> >     @body = 'Hello World, here is the contents of the table',
> >     @subject = 'More SQL Server email',
> >     @attach_query_result_as_file = 0
> >  ;
> >
> >
> > 2009/6/23 Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> >
> > > <http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/42178>
> > >
> > > Sending E-mail from SQL Server 200X
> > >
> > > Susan H.
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