SQL Server change tracking is a lightweight and synchronous mechanism for detecting inserts, updates, and deletes in tracked tables. For those of us who spend a lot of time in ETL, change tracking is a useful tool for defining what data has changed to make the extract-transform-load process more efficient.
SQL Server Change Tracking
In this 30-minute video, I introduce SQL Server change tracking and show how it can be used for detecting changes in monitored tables.
Big thanks to Bensound for the background audio track.
