What do these Maintenance Plans icons mean ?

  • Hello,

    I don't know the exact meanings of these Maintenance Plans icons and cannot find any documents talking about them on the Web.

    Can you tell me ?

    Or can you suggest some links or web sites talking about these Maintenance Plans icons ?

  • I'm at a bit of a loss to know exactly what you're asking. The maint plans are for making database and database transaction log backups - you must know what these are?

    I don't actually use the builtin maint plans myself - I write my own.

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  • Hello, please open my attached Word documents, then you can see SQL Server will assign different icons to my Maintenance Plans (I have several servers).

    I want to know the exact meanings of these icons.

    Do you know them ?

  • no sorry, as I say, I don't use maint plans.

    [font="Comic Sans MS"]The GrumpyOldDBA[/font]
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  • They are probably based on the plan contents or possibly could these be master/target plans? Maybe one's a subplan?

    Is there something different about the plans?

  • Dear Steve,

    My Maintenance Plans can work properly but I just want to know the actual meanings of the icons.

    Up to now, I haven't found any Microsoft official documents talking about these icons.

  • They are just icons for the maintenance plan. They have no special meaning.

    The difference can be explained by looking at the version of SQL Server you are connecting to. I bet one is SP1 (or less) and the other is SP2 or greater.

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  • Dear jeff.williams.3188,

    What you said seems correct.

    I found all my SP1 2005 servers have the yellow Maintenance Plan icons while all the SP2 machines have the red icons.

    Thanks a lot.

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