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Hi folks
If you are using SQL Server 2005 (SP) and used to build Maintanace Plans especially with adding subplans so you are probable seen the folowing error message
/*
Drop failed for Job ‘jobname’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint “FK_subplan_job_id”. The conflict occurred in database “msdb”, table “dbo.sysmaintplan_subplans”, column ‘job_id’.
The statement has been terminated. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 547)
*/

So if you create a MP,SQL Server will create a job and SSIS which is refernced to the subplan as well as inserts the data into system tables in msdb database. (sysmaintplan_subplans,sysjobs_view,sysjobschedules).

Intresting is that if you execute a job it makes more insert into log table called sysmaintplan_log. All of these tables are linked through FK and PK relationships. The problem is when you try to delete a job it gives a Foreign Key errors until you manually remove those entries by the SQL tables.

Please see the link written by Jonas Kempas http://gudenas.com/2007/04/20/sql-server-2005-delete-maintenance-plan-error/ explains step by step how to delete not associated jobs.

I tried it and it worked just fine.

Hi folks.
I named this article with this pretty famous error message. I’m sure that everybody has seen this error at least once.This week I visited our client who asked me very intresting question. They have a table with many columns that most of them defined as VARCHAR(n) datatype. One of the query has been failing with below error.

“Msg 8152, Level 16, State 14, Line 1
String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated.”

Well ,we knew for sure that the user supplied a string which does not match with column datatype but real question is WHICH of so many columns? As I said, they have more than 50 columns and it was pretty difficult to identify on which column is failed.
My point is that it would be nice to have more information from this error message about which column is failing and I hope that MS will do something for the matter.