Send email from Microsoft excel with customized sheet data

Hi folks,

Have you ever faced requirement where you have to send email from an excel with excel data. If you are in that situation, this blog makes your life easier.

Pre-requisites

Send customized excel data of each row as an email. You should have data in each row and you should know have recipient e-mail address

You should have configured e-mail client like outlook, mail of desktop

Procedure

1. Use Hyperlink function of excel
• Syntax
• =HYPERLINK("mailto:"&e-mailCellNo&"?subject="&subjectCellNo&"&body="&bodyCellNo&"%0A","Send email")
• Help
• Cellno in syntax should point to your data cell number
• %0A - New line
• mailto - The recipient mail address
• subject - the text
• body - the body text
• Note
• If you have any special characters, then use ENCODEURL function
• Don't put the ENCODEURL function in HYPERLINK function
• Make sure, ENCODEURL output points to a different cell and use that cell number in HYPERLINK
2. Use $ to use the same cell data repeatedly
3. After doing the hyperlink to a cell, you should be able to view "Send email"
4. Click on the send email
5. Opens the configured/default e-mail client by filling the recipient, subject and body content from excel sheet
6. Click on "send" or "Ctrl+Enter" keyboard shortcut to send email

Hope, this helps you to explore excel and send email with excel data to many recipients with single click

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Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express Docker image Example

Hi Folks,

Today I am going to explain the procedure for connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express edition docker image

Pre-requisites

1. Docker Desktop
2. Windows OS
3. Powershell/command prompt

Procedure

Get and run docker image

> docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "SA_PASSWORD=<Your_Password>" -e "MSSQL_PID=Express" --name "<Your_SQL_Server_Name>" -p 1433:1433 -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2019-latest

Command information

Remove the "MSSQL_PID=Express" to run other version of SQL Server

Replace 2019 with required SQL Server version

Password should be atleast 8 characters with capital, small, numeric, special character combination

Use different port if you already have a local sql server

Name should not contain spaces

Check for docker container

> docker ps

You should able to see the container with your SQL Server name at the end in running status

Connect to SQL Server

docker exec -it "<Your_SQL_Server_Name>" /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U SA -P "<Your_Password>"

You should be able to see "1>" prompt

Command information

Use the SQL Server name or user the container ID

Use database and play around with table(s)

Important

Multiple commands can be entered one after one, but to execute the set of command(s), you need give "GO" command.

Create Database

CREATE DATABASE SampleDB

GO

List all databases

SELECT Name from sys.Databases

GO

Start using the database

USE SampleDB

GO

Create table

CREATE TABLE UserInfo ( Id INT, Name VARCHAR(64))

GO

Insert values

INSERT INTO UserInfo (1, 'ABC')

GO

Retrieve table contents

SELECT * FROM UserInfo

GO

Exit from SQL Server

QUIT

Hope you are able to run the SQL Server Docker image.

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