Tag: Change Data Capture

  • Disable Change Data Capture in SQL Server

    Disabling Change Data Capture (CDC) is straightforward, but it has to happen in the right order: every tracked table first, then the database. Skip a step and SQL Server tells you plainly rather than doing it anyway, which is the safe behaviour but confusing the first time you hit it. This post covers disabling CDC…

  • How to Enable Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server

    Change Data Capture (CDC) allows SQL Server to track inserts, updates, and deletes on selected tables by reading the transaction log and storing changes in system tables. From a DBA point of view, CDC is easy to enable but easy to underestimate. It adds background jobs, ongoing storage growth, and operational overhead that needs to…