Log changes to database table with trigger

Question

I am looking for a good way to log changes that occur on a particular set of tables in my SQL Server 2005 database. I believe the best way to do this is through a trigger that g

Answer 1

You should be able to accomplish this using the system management views.

An example would be something like this:

SELECT er.session_id,
  er.status,
  er.command,
  DB_NAME(database_id) AS 'DatabaseName',
  user_id,
  st.text
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests AS er
  CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle) AS st
WHERE er.session_id = @@SPID;

I'm not sure this will be as useful to you as a more data-centric logging mechanism might be, though.