What does the "Category" drop-down for SQL Server Agent jobs do? The options are so limited and make no sense to me: "Full-Text"? "REPL-Alert Response"? "Web Assistant"?
If, like me, you've ever asked yourself the above question, wonder no more. Tim Ford has an article on MSSQLTips.com titled "Custom job categories to organize your SQL Agent jobs" which answers this, and more.
Tim's article is so useful and simple that immediately after reading it, I went out and added a couple of custom categories, and then assigned my "[Uncategorized (Local)]" jobs. All this took less than 10 minutes, and now I know about SQL Server Agent Job categories. Thanks Tim!
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