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Sp_send_dbmail attach files stored as varbinary in the database

I have two questions related to sending query results as attachments using sp_send_dbmail.

Problem 1: Only the main .txt files are opened. Any other format, such as .pdf or .jpg, is corrupted.

Problem 2: When I try to send multiple attachments, I get one file with all the file names glued together.

I am running SQL Server 2005, and I have a table in which the downloaded documents are stored:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[EmailAttachment](
[EmailAttachmentID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[MassEmailID] [int] NULL, -- foreign key
[FileData] [varbinary](max) NOT NULL,
[FileName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL,
[MimeType] [varchar](100) NOT NULL

I also have a MassEmail table with standard emails. Here is the SQL Send Mail script. For brevity, I excluded the announcement statements.

while ( (select count(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20 )>0) 
begin
    select @MassEmailID = Min(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20
    select @Subject = [Subject] from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
    select @Body = Body from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID

    set @query = 'set nocount on; select cast(FileData as varchar(max)) from Mydatabase.dbo.EmailAttachment where MassEmailID = '+ CAST(@MassEmailID as varchar(100))  

    select  @filename = ''
    select  @filename = COALESCE(@filename+ ',', '') +FileName from EmailAttachment where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID

exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail    
    @profile_name = 'MASS_EMAIL',
    @recipients = 'me@myemail.com',
    @subject = @Subject,
    @body =@Body,
    @body_format ='HTML',
    @query = @query,
    @query_attachment_filename = @filename,
    @attach_query_result_as_file = 1,
    @query_result_separator = '; ',
    @query_no_truncate = 1,
    @query_result_header = 0;

update MassEmailset status= 30,SendDate = GetDate() where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
end

I can successfully read files from the database, so I know that binary data is not corrupted.

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DECLARE @OutputFileAndPath VarChar(500) = '\\Log_Files\MyFile.pdf ' 
DECLARE @sql VarChar(8000)

SELECT @sql = 'BCP "SELECT MyFile FROM [dbo].[MyTable] 
    WHERE PrimaryKey = 12345" queryout ' + @OutputFileAndPath +
        ' -S MyServer\MyInstance -T -fC:\Documents.fmt'

/* you could use a generic format file that would cover most formats */

EXEC xp_cmdshell @sql, NO_OUTPUT;

while ( (select count(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20 )>0) 
begin
    select @MassEmailID = Min(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20
    select @Subject = [Subject] from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
    select @Body = Body from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID


    exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail    
        @profile_name = 'MASS_EMAIL',
        @recipients = 'me@myemail.com',
        @subject = @Subject,
        @body =@Body,
        @body_format ='HTML',
        @file_attachments = @OutputFileAndPath /* i.e. \\Log_Files\MyFile.pdf */

    update MassEmailset status= 30,SendDate = GetDate() where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
end
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