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tcbrown24
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8 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-12 : 10:29:20
I am monitoring maintenance plans for failure and duration. Finding jobs that were deleted still showing up. They exist in the msdb.sysjobs, msdb.sysjobschedules, msdb.sysjobservers, and msdb.sysjobsteps. But not in the msdb.sysdbmaintplan_jobs, msdb.sysdbmaintplan_history, msdb.sysdbmaintplan_databases.
I am seeing this problem in both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (fresh install). Why are some plans cleaned up when deleted and some not, but more to the point; what is the best (safest) way to clean up these records?

rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-12 : 11:54:24
Never had that on my servers. Do you still see them under jobs?
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tcbrown24
Starting Member

8 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-12 : 12:15:59
No I don't see them under jobs, thought they were deleted fine until I started pulling job information into a repository to monitor what is happening with all the jobs on all the servers.
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rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-12 : 12:27:07
In this case, I'll create couple of testing plans then set profiler to trace plan deleting to see what happens.
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tcbrown24
Starting Member

8 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-12 : 12:39:17
I'll give it a go. Most of the jobs seem to have deleted fine, recently deleted all plans and started over from scratch, there were just a handfull of rogues. Therefore may not be able to recreate the problem.
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tcbrown24
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Posted - 2007-06-12 : 14:21:08
Don't seem to be able to recreate the problem on other plans. Will look at the sql for the delete and see if I can delete what didn't get deleted the first time. after I make sure I have a good backup of the msdb database.
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