How to send out email from table data every day?

Question

want to implement email function:
send out data in email from a table with select everyday
how to implement it in ASE 12.5?

Answer 1

You can use the Job Scheduler functionality within ASE or a UNIX OS cron job to cause something to happen at a particular time every day.
With Job Scheduler, you might have it use xp_cmdshell to execute a script on the OS,
while cron would just execute the script directly.
The script would log into ASE, run the select and store the results into a file, then send the file contents.
A simple example of such a script file might be:
isql -Usa -Ppassword -o /work/my_output.txt  << EOF
select * from mydb..mystatus
go
EOF
mailx -s"My Daily Status" bret < /work/my_output.txt
As the file contains your password, be sure permissions are set so only you can read and execute the file.