How to send email notification On Success and On Failure in SQL Agent job

By default, you can set only one of the following options to send email in SQL Agent. Available options are:

1. When the job succeeds
2. When the job fails
3. When the job completes

In most cases, this is not useful, because job might need varieties of emails such as on success or on failure. There are many ways to do this, however, the easiest way to do this just add multiple Steps and configure the main Step based on the event.

In this example, once the Load job success the Go to Step [2] and on the job failure Go to Step [3]

In here Step 2:

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail  

@profile_name = 'DataWarehouse',  

@recipients = 'uma.bale@xxxx.co.nz,

@body = 'Data load successfully completed',  

@subject = Data load successfully completed’;

In here Step 3:

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail  

@profile_name = 'DataWarehouse',  

@recipients = 'uma.bale@xxxx.co.nz,  

@body = 'Data load failed',  

@subject = Data load failed’;

If you want you can use single T-SQL step and send custom email notification based on the outcome. For this CASE statement or IF condition can be used.

Cheers!
Uma

SQL Agent Job failed - /CALLERINFO "SQLAGENT" /REPORTING "E" " has mismatched quotes

If folded/file path contains spaces in SQL Agent parameter, you might get an error something like below.

/CALLERINFO "SQLAGENT" /REPORTING "E" " has mismatched quotes.  The command line parameters are invalid.  The step failed.

For example, the below path contains a space “Process Files”

\\svr1\c$\Process Files\Sale\

To solve this problem, just use a double backslash in the end of the pathname. Yes, it will work ☺

\\svr1\c$\Process Files\Sale\\

Cheers!
Uma