Change Data Capture as a long-term change-tracking solution

  • Has anyone used CDC as a long-term solution for change-tracking? It seems to me as though this was not intended as a platform to be used to capture and retain changes for longer than a few days. I'm very concerned that it would start becoming unmanageable/unsearchable before too long, unless you were regularly flushing the data out to a user table.

  • Yeah, it wasn't intended to be used that way, so my guess is it wouldn't work all that well for that. Even performance could become a real issue at some point.

    You'd likely be better off creating archive tables and using those.

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  • It is only meant to be used for very short term storage of the data, maybe 2-3 days.

    I believe the default retention is 3 days.

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