Is there any way to keep my Change Data tables in another database instead of other schema?

Your kind help is highly appreciated.

Regards,
Atiq Rahman

We have history tables already existing, we are trying to replace them with CDC tables, but we need to migrate data from old history tables into CDC table.

I have applied CDC on child tables, now the requirement has changed and i need to capture changes in parent tables. I can apply CDC on parent tables, but while fetching these change records in parent table, i want the records from its child tables as well which are associated with it at that point of time. Hope you get the point here.

CDC was enabled on the existing database table where it had few records in it. CDC is not capcturing changes for old data which is there prior to the CDC, working great for new records that got inserted. What is the work around for this problem ?

I am looking for the opportunities to use this feature in my current DW implementation however, our source systems are in SQL 2005 and Sybase. Can CDC support other data sources somehow?

Thanks
Ashish

do you have similar explanation for Change Tracking features, it’s pros and cons?
Is it a good practice to use Change Tracking when polling is done with very high frequency say in every 2-3 minutes?

data capturing time can get for each lsn by below sql

SELECT *
FROM cdc.lsn_time_mapping

Thanks
Tharindu Dhaneenja

I tried implementing the CDC and Configured Transctional Replication on the same database.. when i am doing this.. the CDC at the database level looks good..but CDC at the table level is disabling/tweeking the metadata tables of CDC..

So, Could you plzz suggest me on thiss……

Thanks
Anil Inampudi

I do not have SQL Server 2008 and working with SQL server 2005, is there anything similar that i can do to my SQL 2005 version like adding some SP just like CDC that would give me the same functionality ??????

Thanks
Farooq

Thanks,

Randy

Initial setup was clean and easy. When I dig further I am noticing the cleanup job is calling functions and stored procedures that do not exist.

For example:

sp_MScdc_cleanup_job calls the following functions and SP’s that do not exist.

fn_cdc_is_db_enabled
sp_cdc_get_cleanup_retention
sys.sp_cdc_cleanup_job_internal

Is anyone actually using this in a production envirnoment? Do I need to be running SQL2008 R2?

Thanks,

Randy

Great article! You simplified the steps to make it easy to implement.

Is there a way to also capture the User who made the modification?

Is it as simple as adding a column called UserName with a DEFAULT VALUE of SUSER_SNAME() to the CT Table?

Or is there a better way of doing this?

I increased retention to 1 week and backup database weekly.And if any issues want to restore the database and check cdc data.

Thanks,

CDC doesnt give me details on who made the changes.For this I can go with Audits.Other than this do you recommend any other methods.

Thank You,
Anup

I have a principal-mirror servers setup without witness and enabled CDC on a database 1 specific table on principal server. Whenever I failover I create the jobs(cleanup and capture) after failover was made(as BOL is saying) but the capture of the data seems is not happening on the newly principal server.
If I failover back the capturing is wk ok on the initial principal.

Any ideea if I miss something?

Thx for help!

Is there any way to track IP Address to find who did the changes in the table?

while search on google i have found out this alternative where you can add columns to existing CDC table to capture alternative information.

Simply alter the cdc.schema_TableName_CT table and add a column with a default. The columns I have added are

username varchar(30) null default(suser_sname())
auditdte datetime2 null default(getdate())

but i am not sure on impact it may carried out on Database.

can you please let me know if there will any impact on database when I add additional columns which are not created by CDC

Regards
Neil