KB3004195 - FIX: "sp_send_dbmail" stored procedure truncates email attachments to 64 KB in SQL Server 2014

Applies To
SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use)

Symptoms

Assume that you use Database Mail and sp_send_dbmail stored procedure with the @query and @attach\_query\_result\_as\_file option in Microsoft SQL Server 2014. The stored procedure run a query and set the result-set as an attachment of the email. When the query has a large result-set, the attachment is truncated to 64 kilobyte (KB) maximum.

Resolution

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.

Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2999197

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.