Change Data Capture Feature in SQL Server 2008

We have been blogging for quite some time now on the new feature sets of the upcoming release of SQL Server - SQL Server 2008. You can search for SQL Server 2008 on this blog and get to those posts. In this post, we wil cover another new feature called “Change Data Capture”. Using this feature, one can capture the DML activities (insert, update and delete) that take place against the tables. There are two steps that need to happen in order for this to take place: A login that has sysadmin rights first needs to enabled the database for change data capture and then a member of the db_owner database role needs to enable the tables for which the DML activities need to be captured.

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