Edit an Alert
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance
Important
On Azure SQL Managed Instance, most, but not all SQL Server Agent features are currently supported. See Azure SQL Managed Instance T-SQL differences from SQL Server for details.
This topic describes how to edit a Microsoft SQL Server Agent alert in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL.
Before You Begin
Security
Permissions
By default, members of the sysadmin fixed server role can edit information in an alert. Other users must be granted the SQLAgentOperatorRole fixed database role in the msdb database.
Using SQL Server Management Studio
To edit an alert
In Object Explorer, click the plus sign to expand the server containing the alert you want to edit.
Click the plus sign to expand SQL Server Agent.
Click the plus sign to expand the Alerts folder.
Right-click the alert you want to edit and select Properties.
Update the alert properties on the General, Response, and Options pages.
When finished, click OK.
Using Transact-SQL
To edit an alert
In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of Database Engine.
On the Standard bar, click New Query.
Copy and paste the following example into the query window and click Execute.
-- changes the enabled setting of Test Alert to 0 USE msdb ; GO EXEC dbo.sp_update_alert @name = N'Test Alert', @enabled = 0 ; GO
For more information, see sp_update_alert (Transact-SQL).
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