Send error messages in DatabaseMail when SQL Job fails/succeeds

Question

Hi ,
I have setup a profile and account for sending mail using DatabaseMail. I have a SQL JOB. If the job fails, I receive an Email.
Till this point, everything works fine. This is what the email looks like :
JOB RUN: 'GenerateJVForLabourAndOverheads_R11Testing' was run on 20-12-2012 at 10:10:50
DURATION: 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
STATUS: Failed
MESSAGES: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 58 (Execute SP). The last step to run was step 1 (Execute SP).
Now what I want is, if the job fails for any reason, that error message should appear in the email message body.
for example, FK_Constraint error , Conversion errors or any error that caused my sql job to fail.
Is this possible ?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Lok..

Answer 1

 This is one way to do, assuming your job has 2 steps and step 1 does the main part.
So,in your step 2 of the job, you can add the below code and 
declare @body1 varchar(8000) 
select top 1 @body1 = [Message] from msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory A INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs B ON B.Job_id = A.Job_id
 where B.Name = <<JobNaMe>> and A.step_id =1 order by instance_id desc
 EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name = <<YourMail profile>>
,@recipients = <<RecipeintEmail>>,@subject =<<Your subject>>,@body = @body1
 I guess, you can also  log the job step output to an outputfile and have it sent as an attachment to your mail... this might help if you have many steps in one job....
HTH!!
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