3

Sending emails using a DB... Thoughts?

Comments
  • 0
    For what purpose? To send updates about database health? Are you certain it wouldn't be just more noise in a wall of email? It would be for my team.
  • 0
    @bahua email notifications about one of the services using the database
  • 0
    Just as an alternative to a dedicated monitoring system?
  • 0
    @bahua for example if devRants database sent out the "++'d your rant" notifications
  • 1
    That's better done as the result of a streaming event bus with a consistent domain message strategy.
  • 0
    I looked into using SQL that would output a file directly into the SMTP's queue folder that would automatically get detected and emailed out. Felt kind of hackish lol
  • 1
    @BobbyTables for Oracle there's a package that lets you use the SMTP
Add Comment