| title | dbo.syscategories (Transact-SQL) | ||||
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| description | dbo.syscategories (Transact-SQL) | ||||
| author | VanMSFT | ||||
| ms.author | vanto | ||||
| ms.date | 03/04/2017 | ||||
| ms.service | sql | ||||
| ms.subservice | system-objects | ||||
| ms.topic | reference | ||||
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[!INCLUDE SQL Server]
Contains the categories used by [!INCLUDEssManStudioFull] to organize jobs, alerts, and operators. This table is stored in the msdb database.
| Column name | Data type | Description |
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| category_id | int | ID of the category |
| category_class | int | Type of item in the category: 1 = Job 2 = Alert 3 = Operator |
| category_type | tinyint | Type of category: 1 = Local 2 = Multiserver 3 = None |
| name | sysname | Name of the category |