mailing from MS SQL

Hi, is it possible to send an email from MS SQL? I need to have a trigger which will activate the sending an email. Thanksdo not do it from a trigger. What happens if there is a bulk import of 10,000 records. You want 10,000 emails? Otherwise please google or refer to SQL Server Books Online for xp_sendmail or xp_smtpmail.|||A bulk import of 10,000 records is still only going to execute the trigger once. A cursor or loop-based import would stress out your e-mail system, though.
It's just a bad idea for the scope of a trigger's actions to extend outside the database. Don't do it.
An alternative is to have your trigger load messages into a queue table for regularly processing by a scheduled job (which could run as frequently as once per minute).|||I was assuming that we would execute xp_sendmail for every record in inserted smart guy.|||I know you were, and I know you know the difference. Just wanted to make sure the poster did not get the wrong impression.