I am using sp_send_dbmail in SQL2005 to send an email with the results in an attachment. When the attachment is sent it is UCS-2 Encoded, I want it to be ANSI or UTF-8.
Here is the SQL
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients = 'temp@example.com'
, @query = 'DECLARE @string_to_trim varchar(60);SET @string_to_trim = ''1234''; select rtrim(@string_to_trim), ''tom'''
, @query_result_header=0
, @subject = 'see attach'
, @body= 'temp body'
, @profile_name= N'wksql01tAdmin'
, @body_format = 'HTML'
,@query_result_separator = ','
,@query_attachment_filename = 'results.csv'
,@query_no_truncate = '0'
,@attach_query_result_as_file = 1
I have seen some comments on the internet that this is fixed with sql2005 SP2, but do not find it to be the case.
I think the only way to get around what you are seeing is to use BCP to dump the data to a flat file and then attach that file. Sorry I couldn't be more help. :(
After some research on SQL Server 2008 R2:
Add to sp_send_dbmail
:
@ANSI_Attachment BIT = 0
WITH EXECUTE AS 'dbo'
Replace
IF(@AttachmentsExist = 1)
BEGIN
.......
END
with:
IF(@AttachmentsExist = 1)
BEGIN
if (@ANSI_Attachment = 1)
begin
--Copy temp attachments to sysmail_attachments
INSERT INTO sysmail_attachments(mailitem_id, filename, filesize, attachment)
SELECT @mailitem_id, filename, filesize,
convert(varbinary(max),
substring( -- remove BOM mark from unicode
convert(varchar(max), CONVERT (nvarchar(max), attachment)),
2, DATALENGTH(attachment)/2
)
)
FROM sysmail_attachments_transfer
WHERE uid = @temp_table_uid
end else begin
--Copy temp attachments to sysmail_attachments
INSERT INTO sysmail_attachments(mailitem_id, filename, filesize, attachment)
SELECT @mailitem_id, filename, filesize, attachment
FROM sysmail_attachments_transfer
WHERE uid = @temp_table_uid
end
END
In order to have the file be ANSI/UTF-8
alter the sp_send_dbmail that lives in the msdb
with this line along with the other variables: @ANSI_Attachment BIT = 0
i.e.
@mailitem_id INT = NULL OUTPUT,
@ANSI_Attachment BIT = 0
WITH EXECUTE AS 'dbo'
and then add this line to your call to sp_send_dbmail:
@ansi_attachment = 1
then it should give you an ansi attachment instead of unicode.