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Hi all me again I gotta question, the Sr executive asst has a number of reports that gets emailed to different department, only problem is those departments are on a totally different server. I am guessing that we need to start SQL AGENT Emailing MAPI to do this for us, of course I could be wrong. This is one of the stored procedures that creates one of the reports

CREATE PROCEDURE createSecurityListtobeEmailed
AS
SELECT SecurityListX."Last Name", SecurityListX."First Name", SecurityListX.MI, SecurityListX.Sex, SecurityListX.DOB, SecurityListX.IR#, SecurityListX."Issue Date", SecurityListX."Date served", SecurityListX.Duration, SecurityListX."Exp Date", SecurityListX."Reason for Exclusion", SecurityListX."Added Comment", SecurityListX.type INTO SecurityList
FROM SecurityListX
GROUP BY SecurityListX."Last Name", SecurityListX."First Name", SecurityListX.MI, SecurityListX.Sex, SecurityListX.DOB, SecurityListX.IR#, SecurityListX."Issue Date", SecurityListX."Date served", SecurityListX.Duration, SecurityListX."Exp Date", SecurityListX."Reason for Exclusion", SecurityListX."Added Comment", SecurityListX.type
HAVING (((SecurityListX."Last Name") Is Not Null))
GOIt appears that this just does a simple aggregation from SecurityListX into SecurityList. I can't see that it has any return set, or that it emails anything anywhere.

Are you sure that you aren't missing a few pieces to this puzzle ?

-PatP|||yes pat there are a few pieces of the puzzle missing, this will create a list which will be made into a report that a webpage on the casinos server, that the security department can view. Now I guess I have inherited this db and I need to include in the stored procedures using Xp_sendmail but I am unsure how to do it, and what I am doing is returning nothing but errors. So if you please sir....HELP???

Goodmorning Pat :)|||This is actually way too complex for me to even hazard a guess about what you really need to do, based on what I know so far. A lot depends on your mail configuration, security requirements, etc., so there isn'ta "one size fits most" kind of answer.

If all you want to do is run that statement, then send someone an email to tell them it ran (or failed), you can do that with just SQL Agent. If you want to extract the rows from the table and incorporate them into a mail message, then I'd suggest xp_sendmail.

At the moment I'm hampered by my rather limited understanding of what you want!

-PatP|||At the moment I'm hampered by my rather limited understanding of what you want!

And just when did that start to be a problem?

Sorry...I have Notus Lotes...(piece of garbage)|||And just when did that start to be a problem?

Sorry...I have Notus Lotes...(piece of garbage)I'm hampered by Bloats too. It does provide a great deal of casual entertainment as I'm trying to get some work done!

-PatP|||Nevermind Pat sorry to have bothered you|||Huh ?!?! Does that mean that you've solved the problem, or that you are going to look for another solution? Now you've given us enough to work on (via the snippets of VBA code) and you're going to take your ball and go home ?!?! Piddle! :rolleyes:

-PatP|||Misunderstood thought you were still unclear as was getting frustrated. I'm sure you have better things to do then to Mind read all day, since I couldnt get my point across. Had to retrieve more information was turning into a futile attempt...everyone was giving me bits and pieces.
XP_sendmail is new to me not sure how to do it|||That is actually one of the biggest hurdles to taking responsibility for a new (to you) system. You have to gather all of the stray bits of knowledge tucked into nooks and crannies throughout the systems affected, and if you have any pity on the next poor soul to come along you'll document the living bejesus out of what confused you.

If the next person has at least a few breadcrumbs to start from, they'll be a million miles further along than where you had to start from, and will hopefully utter prayers for you for the rest of their lives! Keep in mind that almost all systems are living things, they either grow or die, so the next person will have the chaos that you inherited plus everything that gets added during your tenure too. I've got a few systems that are exceptions that make great stories, but those are exceptions, not the rule by any means!

-PatP