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Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

ju...@discussions.microsoft.com (Julie) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:00:01 UT

Thanks Kalen,
So far there is no cases that exceed 8000 yet, I am just preparing for worst
case scenerio. I will keep my fingers crossed that it will not exceed 8000...
until we upgrade our server to SQL 2005 ;-)
But I faced another challenge which I posted in a separate thread "Why Email
body get truncated?"

Why Email body get truncated?

ju...@discussions.microsoft.com (Julie) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:51:01 UT

Good day everybody.
I am using SQL 2000 and is writing a Transact SQL to autosend an email after
a process. Here is an extract of my query :
DECLARE @EBody VARCHAR(8000)
.... process to build up @EBody content ....
exec master..usp_send_cdosysmail
@from ='**Removed**',
@to = '**Removed**',
@cc ='**Removed**',

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

please_reply_on_newsgro...@domain.com (Kalen Delaney) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:45:21 UT

There is a datatype called text in SQL 2000, but it is much more problematic
to work with. I suggest you re-evaluate and see if you can limit your total
characters to 8000 if at all possible.

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

please_reply_on_newsgro...@domain.com (Kalen Delaney) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:42:14 UT

VARCHAR(MAX) was added in SQL 2005, so this makes me suspect you might not
be running SQL 2005.
What do you get from this query:
SELECT @@version
If you are running SQL 2005, you'll need to show the whole batch as you
submitted it so we can see if the error is due to something else in your
code.

Re: Merging two select cases

tomcoo...@comcast.net (Tom Cooper) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:38:33 UT

I'm not sure I understand what you want. But perhaps
With cte As
(Select ID,PR_ID,USER_ID,Job_Type_ID,M edium_ID,
Row_Number() Over (Partition By Job_Type_ID, Medium_ID Order By Case When
User_ID is Not Null Then 1 Else 2 End) As rn
From #A)
Select ID, PR_ID, USER_ID, Job_Type_ID, Medium_ID
From cte

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

ju...@discussions.microsoft.com (Julie) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:36:01 UT

Kalen,
A thousand apologies.
I realised my mistake, my server is "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2055
(Intel X86)"
As newbie, I confuse it with the SQL version in my local PC. Yes, I test
Varchar(max) in my local PC and there is no error.
To solve the situation in my server, how should I go-about to solve it?

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

ju...@discussions.microsoft.com (Julie) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:26:01 UT

Hi Kalen,
Following your advise, I modified my query
DECLARE @EBody1 VARCHAR(MAX)
When I parse query, I get error message "Incorrect syntax near 'MAX'." at
that line.
The reason I do not wish to create table for this case because I extract
some data that I wish to highlight to my enduser via email. So is no need to

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

please_reply_on_newsgro...@domain.com (Kalen Delaney) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:08:18 UT

Julie
Please read my original response again. I suggested you might need to use
varchar(MAX) to hold more than 8000 characters. This is a new feature as of
SQL Server 2005. Please read about it in the Books Online before you use it.
I am concerned by your statement that you want to avoid creating a table, as

Re: Merging two select cases

mpa...@community.nospam (mpaine) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:48:04 UT

Thanks for the response. Here is another version of the dataset I'm working
with:
DROP TABLE #A; DROP TABLE #C;
CREATE TABLE #A (ID int, PR_ID int null, [User_ID] int null, Job_Type_ID int
null, Medium_ID int null)
INSERT INTO #A (ID, PR_ID, [USER_ID], Job_Type_ID, Medium_ID) VALUES
(99, NULL, 904551, 30, 1)

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

ju...@discussions.microsoft.com (Julie) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:31:01 UT

Dear Kalen,
Thank you for your response. Yes, you are right, I should say concatenate
instead of join. I am a newbie in SQL programming.
Yes, VARCHAR is a better option then CHAR.
I avoid to create table or file therefore I need to store the data into
variable. As I understand the maximum for any datatype is 8000 only. So I

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

please_reply_on_newsgro...@domain.com (Kalen Delaney) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:48:38 UT

Hi again Julie
Also, you should be careful with your terminology. JOIN has a very
particular meaning when working with the SQL language. I believe (and
indicated in my previous response to you) that you are talking about
concatenation, not joining.

Re: How to join two variables in email body to send out?

please_reply_on_newsgro...@domain.com (Kalen Delaney) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:47:03 UT

Hi Julie
A parameter passed into a stored procedure cannot be an expression... it can
only be a constant or a variable. You can declare another local variable
and assign the concatenation of @EBody1 and @Ebody2 to it, and the use the
new variable as the parameter.
I would also suggest you carefully consider whether you really want @Ebody1

Re: Sill confused with EXECUTE AS OWNER

no_bobb_s...@sqlskills.com (Bob Beauchemin) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:44:08 UT

An impersonated context doesn't work cross-database by default. Reference
[link]
and
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Re: TSQL Challenge 18 - Generate text formatted month calendars

kgbo...@earthlink.net (TheSQLGuru) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:45:49 UT

Plamen does indeed know how to craft a fine query!!

Re: Why can't recursive queries contain...?

m...@nospam.com (Michael C) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:35:28 UT

Sounds fine to me.
Sounds reasonable. In the *extremely* rare case I need to store such huge
strings then I expect to send the results to disk. If this is the reason
sqlserver has these 8k limits then that seams even sillier than I first
thought. A feature than it is very rarely used seams to be limiting the