Transact-SQL Reference

syscategories

Contains the categories used by SQL Server Enterprise Manager to organize jobs, alerts, and operators. This table is stored in the msdb database.

Column name Data type Description
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