PAUSE SCHEDULES

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The PAUSE SCHEDULES statement can be used to pause backup schedules.

After pausing a schedule, you can resume it with RESUME SCHEDULES.

Required privileges

The following users can pause a schedule:

Members of the admin role. By default, the root user belongs to the admin role.
New in v22.2: Owners of a backup schedule, i.e., the user that created the backup schedule.

PAUSE SCHEDULES <selectclause>
  select clause: select statement returning schedule id to pause.
PAUSE SCHEDULE <scheduleID>

Parameter	Description
`selectclause`	A selection query that returns `id`(s) to pause.
`scheduleID`	The `id` of the schedule you want to pause, which can be found with `SHOW SCHEDULES`.

> PAUSE SCHEDULE 589963390487363585;

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To pause multiple schedules, nest a SELECT clause that retrieves id(s) inside the PAUSE SCHEDULES statement:

> PAUSE SCHEDULES WITH x AS (SHOW SCHEDULES) SELECT id FROM x WHERE label = 'schedule_database';

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In this example, all schedules with the label schedule_database are paused.