OperatorCategories Collection

The OperatorCategories collection contains Category objects that reference a classification method for SQL Server Agent operators.

Properties

Count Property

Methods

Remarks

For SQL Server Agent, categories offer a mixed system and user-defined method for grouping alerts, operators, and jobs.

With the OperatorCategories collection, you can:

• Create a new classification for SQL Server Agent operators.
  
  
• Remove a SQL Server Agent operator classification.

For more information about creating a SQL Server Agent operator category, see Category Object.

To remove an operator category

• Use the Remove method of the OperatorCategories collection, as in:

  oJobServer.OperatorCategories.Remove("Page")

Note  When using the Remove method of the OperatorCategories collection, existing SQL Server Agent jobs are reclassified as necessary. Any operators previously exhibiting the removed category exhibit the category [Uncategorized] after the Remove method completes.

When using the Item or Remove method, the OperatorCategories collection supports member identification using either name or ordinal reference syntax. For example:

Set oCategory = oJobServer.OperatorCategories("Page")

Or:

Set oCategory = oJobServer.OperatorCategories(1)