Maintenance mode – tying the text of the category to the database

I havent seen this discussed before – so I figured I would post this.

In the OpsDB and DWDB – we keep some tables names MaintenanceMode and MaintenanceModeHistory.

When you place an object into maintenance mode – we will log a row in the database for this object.  You could potentially write reports against this data in the data warehouse, and report on MM history. 

From the following query: 

select * from dbo.vMaintenanceModeHistory

There is a column named “ReasonCode”  This has a numeric value.  However – in the UI – this correlates to the “Category” that you must select when you place an object into MM:

Here is a table which sorts out the numeric reason code vs the text in the UI: