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Delete an Alert (SQL Server Management Studio)

SQL Server 2012

This topic describes how to delete Microsoft SQL Server Agent alerts in SQL Server 2012 by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL.

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Removing an alert also removes any notifications associated with the alert.

By default, only members of the sysadmin fixed server role can delete alerts.

In Object Explorer, click the plus sign to expand the server that contains the SQL Server Agent alert that you want to delete.
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 delete and select Delete.
In the Delete Object dialog box, confirm that the correct alert is selected and click OK.

Copy and paste the following example into the query window and click Execute.

-- deletes the SQL Server Agent alert called 'Test Alert.'
USE msdb ;
GO

EXEC dbo.sp_delete_alert
   @name = N'Test Alert' ;
GO

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