Introduction
According to Microsoft, Database Mail is an enterprise solution for sending e-mail messages from the SQL Server Database Engine. Using Database Mail, your database applications can send e-mail messages to users. The messages can contain query results and can also include files from any resource on your network. This article is going to discuss how to identify mostly used profiles/accounts to make side-by-side migration to a new instance easy.
Microsoft lists four benefits for Database Mail: reliability, scalability, security, and supportability. I personally going to add one more: convenience. Database Mail allows you to send emails using T-SQL, i.e.