sys.sp_cdc_help_jobs (Transact-SQL)

Reports information about all change data capture cleanup or capture jobs in the current database.

Syntax

sys.sp_cdc_help_jobs

0 (success) or 1 (failure)

Column name	Data type	Description
job_id	uniqueidentifier	The ID of the job.
job_type	nvarchar(20)	The type of job.
maxtrans	int	The maximum number of transactions to process in each scan cycle. maxtrans is valid only for capture jobs.
maxscans	int	The maximum number of scan cycles to execute in order to extract all rows from the log. maxscans is valid only for capture jobs.
continuous	bit	A flag indicating whether the capture job is to run continuously (1), or run in one-time mode (0). For more information, see sys.sp_cdc_add_job (Transact-SQL). continuous is valid only for capture jobs.
pollinginterval	bigint	The number of seconds between log scan cycles. pollinginterval is valid only for capture jobs.
retention	bigint	The number of minutes that change rows are to be retained in change tables. retention is valid only for cleanup jobs.
threshold	bigint	The maximum number of delete entries that can be deleted using a single statement on cleanup.

Requires membership in the db_owner fixed database role.

The following example returns information about the defined capture and cleanup jobs for the AdventureWorks database.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
EXEC sys.sp_cdc_help_jobs;
GO