http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/06/05/maintenance-mode-tying-the-text-of-the-category-to-the-database.aspxI 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 foren-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)