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Question

I'm on Oracle 9i R2 Patch 7 on a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.
What are the options to enable email notification to the DBA?
For example, I have a query that returns the size of datafiles and I wish to run this query every night and send me an email as a report to me as the DBA.

Answer 1

Eric,
I have the follwoing code that sends a simple email however, I'm struggling to understand how to incorporate the following query and send the results as an attachment? Are you able to assist?
--Query that needs to be run & attached to an email.
SELECT TABLESPACE_NAME, FILE_NAME, USER_BYTES / 1024 / 1024 AS "Current Size", MAXBYTES / 1024 /1024 AS "Max Size", STATUS
FROM DBA_DATA_FILES
ORDER BY 1
--Email Code
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE send_email
( sender IN VARCHAR2,
recipient IN VARCHAR2,
subject IN VARCHAR2,
message IN VARCHAR2)
AS
mailhost VARCHAR2(100) := 'mailhost.fictional-domain.com';
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
BEGIN
mail_conn :=utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost);
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn,mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn,sender); -- sender
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn,recipient); -- recipient
utl_smtp.open_data(mail_conn);
send_header(mail_conn,'From', '"Sender" <'||sender||'>');
send_header(mail_conn,'To', '"Recipient" <'||recipient||'>');
send_header(mail_conn,'Subject', subject);
utl_smtp.write_data(mail_conn, utl_tcp.CRLF||message);
utl_smtp.close_data(mail_conn);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_smtp.transient_error OR utl_smtp.permanent_error THEN
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
raise_application_error(-20000,
'Failed tosend mail due to the following error: ' || sqlerrm);
WHEN OTHERS THEN
raise_application_error(-20001,
'The following error has occured: ' || sqlerrm);
END;
SHOW ERRORS
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
EXECUTE send_email('[email protected]','[email protected]','This is a UTL_SMTP-generated email','Hi There !');