Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML

I’ve written a lot of custom reports in my days that output data as an HTML string and then sends it via email. It makes for an easy to read, colorful report, and PM’s and business folks love easy to read, colorful reports. Until recently, I used simple string concatenation for building my HTML strings. Simple string concatenation is not always simple as it can yield unexpected results due to data type conversions. I knew there had to be a