Generic failure using sp_send_dbmail in SQL Server 2014

Question

I\'m trying to use sp_send_dbmail to send the results of a query through a SQLAgent job in SQL Server 2014. I believe I have my DBMail profile set up properly

Answer 1

There's another reason why you might get this error; if the query has an issue.

In our case we had (note that it's not due to a syntax error; note the missing quotes):

DECLARE @EmailQuery varchar(max) = 'select 
                                    e.Field1,
                                    REPLACE(REPLACE(e.ExceptionReason, CHAR(13), ''), CHAR(10), '') ExceptionReason,
                                    e.UserName
                                from dbo.tblException e'

Once we corrected it as follows, it worked fine:

DECLARE @EmailQuery varchar(max) = 'select 
                                    e.Field1,
                                    REPLACE(REPLACE(e.ExceptionReason, CHAR(13), ''''), CHAR(10), '''') ExceptionReason,
                                    e.UserName
                                from dbo.tblException e'