Maintenance Plans and corresponding Jobs

SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
questions:
1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the maintenance
plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and maintenance plan out
of sycnh?
2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating maintenance
plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to debug. Has this
been improved in 2005?
Thanks,
Mark
Mark,
In some ways it is better. If you make significant changes to the job and
then go and make a change in the maintenance plan some of those job changes
will be deleted.
If you add extra steps then these will all disappear. It would also depend
on the build that created the maintenance plan/job and the build that you
change them with if they were created before SP2 post builds.
Chris
"Mark" <mark@.idonotlikespam.com> wrote in message
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> SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
> questions:
> 1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the
> maintenance plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and
> maintenance plan out of sycnh?
> 2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating
> maintenance plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to
> debug. Has this been improved in 2005?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>