sp_add_maintenance_plan (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: SQL Server
Adds a maintenance plan and returns the plan ID.
Note
This stored procedure is used with database maintenance plans. This feature has been replaced with maintenance plans which don't use this stored procedure. Use this procedure to maintain database maintenance plans on installations that were upgraded from a previous version of SQL Server.
This feature will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions
Syntax
sp_add_maintenance_plan
[ @plan_name = ] 'plan_name'
, [ @plan_id = ] 'plan_id' OUTPUT
[ ; ]
Arguments
[ @plan_name = ] N'plan_name'
Specifies the name of the maintenance plan to be added. @plan_name is varchar(128).
[ @plan_id = ] N'plan_id' OUTPUT
Specifies the ID of the maintenance plan. @plan_id is uniqueidentifier.
Return code values
0
(success) or 1
(failure).
Remarks
sp_add_maintenance_plan
must be run from the msdb
database and creates a new, but empty, maintenance plan. To add one or more databases and associate them with a job or jobs, execute sp_add_maintenance_plan_db
and sp_add_maintenance_plan_job
.
Permissions
This stored procedure is owned by the db_owner role. You can grant EXECUTE
permissions for any user, but these permissions may be overridden during a SQL Server upgrade.
Examples
Create a maintenance plan called MyPlan
.
DECLARE @myplan_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER;
EXECUTE sp_add_maintenance_plan
@plan_name = N'MyPlan',
@plan_id = @myplan_id OUTPUT
PRINT 'The ID for the maintenance plan "MyPlan" is:' + convert(VARCHAR(256), @myplan_id);
GO
Success in creating the maintenance plan returns the plan ID.
The ID for the maintenance plan "MyPlan" is: FAD6F2AB-3571-11D3-9D4A-00C04FB925FC