How the cdc retention value can be changed for the cleanup job?

Question

I\'m implementing a logging feature on a asp.net mvc2 application, that uses SqlServer2008 as a database and Entity Framework as a data model.

I enabled CDC feature of S

Answer 1

By default it deletes anything older than 3 days, to change the default value to 14 days use the following script

use 
go

SELECT ([retention])/((60*24)) AS Default_Retention_days ,*
FROM msdb.dbo.cdc_jobs
go

EXEC .sys.sp_cdc_change_job 
@job_type=N'Cleanup'
,@retention=20160 -- <60 min *24 hrs * 14 days >
go

SELECT ([retention])/((60*24)) AS Default_Retention_days ,*
FROM msdb.dbo.cdc_jobs
Go