dbo.sysalerts (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server

Contains one row for each alert. An alert is a message sent in response to an event. An alert can forward messages beyond the SQL Server environment, and an alert can be an e-mail or pager message. An alert also can generate a task. This table is stored in the msdb database.

Column name	Data type	Description
id	int	Alert ID.
name	sysname	Alert name.
event_source	nvarchar(100)	Source of the event: SQL Server.
event_category_id	int	Reserved for future use.
event_id	int	Reserved for future use.
message_id	int	User-defined message ID or reference to sysmessages message that triggers this alert.
severity	int	Severity that triggers this alert.
enabled	tinyint	Status of the alert: 0 = Disabled. 1 = Enabled.
delay_between_responses	int	Wait period, in seconds, between notifications for this alert.
last_occurrence_date	int	Last occurrence (date) of the alert.
last_occurrence_time	int	Last occurrence (time of day) of the alert.
last_response_date	int	Last notification (date) of the alert.
last_response_time	int	Last notification (time of day) of the alert.
notification_message	nvarchar(512)	Additional information sent with the alert.
include_event_description	tinyint	Bitmask representing whether the event description is sent by e-mail, pager, or net send. See the following chart for values.
database_name	nvarchar(512)	Database in which this alert must occur to trigger this alert.
event_description_keyword	nvarchar(100)	Description of the SQL Server error in the Windows application log that must be like the supplied sequence of characters, in order for the alert to trigger.
occurrence_count	int	Number of occurrences for this alert.
count_reset_date	int	Day (date) count will be reset to 0.
count_reset_time	int	Time of day count will be reset to 0.
job_id	uniqueidentifier	ID of the task executed when this alert occurs.
has_notification	int	Number of operators who receive e-mail notification when alert occurs.
flags	int	Reserved.
performance_condition	nvarchar(512)	Reserved.
category_id	int	Reserved.

Remarks

The following table shows the values for the include_event_description bitmask. dbo.sysalerts returns the decimal value.

Decimal	Binary	Meaning
0	0000	no message
1	0001	email
2	0010	pager
3	0011	pager and email
4	0100	net send
5	0101	net send and email
6	0110	net send and pager
7	0111	net send, pager, and email