Oracle and PL/SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

11-2. E-mailing Output from a Scheduled Job

Problem

You have a scheduled job that runs a stored procedure at a regular interval. The procedure produces output that ordinarily would be sent to the screen via the DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE procedure, but since it runs as a nightly batch job, you want to send the output to a distribution list as an e-mail message.

Solution

Save the output in a CLOB variable and then send it to the target distribution list using the UTL_MAIL.SEND procedure. For example, suppose you want to audit the employee table periodically to find all employees who have not been assigned to a department within the company. Here's a procedure to do that:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE employee_audit AS CURSOR    driver IS    -- find ...