How to attach excel files in an email using powershell - powershell

Question

I have the following select statement that extract data from a SQL Server database table:
$QUERY = "SELECT * FROM Table1"
$DataVariable = Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance "MyInstance" -Database "MyDB" -Query $QUERY
How can I attach the $DataVariable as an excel file in my email?
I am working on the code below:
$Date = get-date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy"
$Day = $Date.DayOfWeek
$DateTested = $Date
$filename = "MYReport_$(get-date -f yyyy-MM-dd).XLS"
$OutputFile = "\\server\c$\Output\$filename"
I don't seem to go anywhere with this. Can anyone assist please?
Thanks

Answer 1

Your code snippets don't seem to be related to one another
there is no attempt to mail anything
I suggest to save $Datavarable to csv (xlsx is also possible)
this raw example script uses gmail and splatting to fill the parameters
$QUERY = "SELECT * FROM Table1"
$DataVariable = Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance "MyInstance" -Database "MyDB" -Query $QUERY
$filename = "MYReport_$(get-date -f yyyy-MM-dd).csv"
$OutputFile = "\\server\c$\Output\$filename"
$DataVariable | Export-Csv $OutPutFile -NoTypeInformation
$emailAcc = "youraccount#gmail.com"
$Cred = Get-Credential -UserName $emailAcc -Message "Enter gmail password for $emailAcc"
$MsgParam = #{
From = $emailAcc
To = "recipient#domain.com"
Subject = $filename
Body = 'blah blah sending $filename'
Attachments = $OutPutFile
SmtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
}
Send-MailMessage #MsgParam -UseSSL -cred $Cred

Answer 2

I have managed to build the code below and it worked for me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
$DataVariable = Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance $ResultsInstance -Database $ResultsDatabase -Query $SQL
$Date = get-date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy"
$Day = $Date.DayOfWeek
$DateTested = $Date
$filename = "MyReport_$(get-date -f yyyy-MM-dd).csv"
$OutputFile = "\\serverName\c$\Output\$filename"
$DataVariable | Export-csv $OutPutFile -NoTypeInformation
$to = "Support"
$body = "Dear <b><font color=black>$to</b></font> <br>"
$body += "<p>Please find attached report.</p> <br>"
$body += "Kind Regards<br>"
$body += "Dev Team <br>"
$fromaddress = "xyz#xyz.com"
#$toaddress = "x#ytm.com"
$toaddress = "x#ytm.com"
$bccaddress = "x#ytm.com"
$CCaddress = "x#ytm.com"
$Subject = "My weekly report"
$attachment = $OutputFile
$smtpserver = "xyzmail"
####################################
$message = new-object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$message.From = $fromaddress
$message.To.Add($toaddress)
$message.CC.Add($CCaddress)
$message.Bcc.Add($bccaddress)
$message.IsBodyHtml = $True
$message.Subject = $Subject
$attach = new-object Net.Mail.Attachment($attachment)
$message.Attachments.Add($attach)
$message.body = $body
$message.Priority = [System.Net.Mail.MailPriority]::High
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpserver)
if ($DataVariable) {
$smtp.Send($message)
Write-Host "The variable is not null" }