sp_help_maintenance_plan (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: 
SQL Server
Returns information about the specified maintenance plan. If a plan isn't specified, this stored procedure returns information about all maintenance plans.
Note
This stored procedure is used with database maintenance plans. This feature has been replaced with maintenance plans which don't use this stored procedure. Use this procedure to maintain database maintenance plans on installations that were upgraded from a previous version of SQL Server.
This feature will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions
Syntax
sp_help_maintenance_plan [ [ @plan_id = ] 'plan_id' ]
[ ; ]
Arguments
[ @plan_id = ] 'plan_id'
Specifies the plan ID of the maintenance plan. @plan_id is uniqueidentifier, with a default of NULL.
Return code values
None.
Result set
If @plan_id is specified, sp_help_maintenance_plan returns three tables: Plan, Database, and Job.
Plan table
| Column name | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
plan_id |
uniqueidentifier | Maintenance plan ID. |
plan_name |
sysname | Maintenance plan name. |
date_created |
datetime | Date the maintenance plan was created. |
owner |
sysname | Owner of the maintenance plan. |
max_history_rows |
int | Maximum number of rows allocated for recording the history of the maintenance plan in the system table. |
remote_history_server |
int | The name of the remote server to which the history report could be written. |
max_remote_history_rows |
int | Maximum number of rows allocated in the system table on a remote server to which the history report could be written. |
user_defined_1 |
int | Default is NULL. |
user_defined_2 |
nvarchar(100) | Default is NULL. |
user_defined_3 |
datetime | Default is NULL. |
user_defined_4 |
uniqueidentifier | Default is NULL. |
Database table
| Column name | Description |
|---|---|
database_name |
Name of all databases associated with the maintenance plan. database_name is sysname. |
Job table
| Column name | Description |
|---|---|
job_id |
ID of all jobs associated with the maintenance plan. job_id is uniqueidentifier. |
Remarks
sp_help_maintenance_plan is in the msdb database.
Permissions
You can grant EXECUTE permissions on this procedure, but these permissions might be overridden during a SQL Server upgrade.
Examples
This example descriptive information about the maintenance plan FAD6F2AB-3571-11D3-9D4A-00C04FB925FC.
EXEC sp_help_maintenance_plan
N'FAD6F2AB-3571-11D3-9D4A-00C04FB925FC';