From monitoring e-mail messages to distributing reports for users, SQL Server's database mail proves quite useful. Learn how to use it in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005/2008.
by Francisco Tapia,
Susan Sales Harkins
June 19, 2009
ending email from SQL Server can be a useful way to keep yourself or the system's administrator informed of any errors and alerts, but depending on your version of SQL Server, the setup can be quite involved or relatively simple. With SQL Server 2000, the setup requires a heavy email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, or a rather convoluted stored procedure. SQL Server 2005 vastly improved the process by adding email functionality to Management Studio. (The feature remains in SQL Server 2008.)
This article explains the processes for sending email from SQL Server 2000 and from SQL Server 2005/2008.
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ending email from SQL Server can be a useful way to keep yourself or the system's administrator informed of any errors and alerts, but depending on your version of SQL Server, the setup can be quite involved or relatively simple. With SQL Server 2000, the setup requires a heavy email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, or a rather convoluted stored procedure. SQL Server 2005 vastly improved the process by adding email functionality to 
