How to find out who made inserts/updates/deletes made to a SQL Table

I want to know WHO MAKES INSERTS/UPDATES/DELETES TO a particular SQL Table. Bascially I want to AUDIT ANY Edites made to a SQL 2008 TABLE. I need info such as WHO AMDE THE Updates i.e. the user first/lastname, When update was made, what row was updated etc...How
can I do that with SQL 2008?

One way to achieve that would be to use triggers to detect when a change is made to the table, and then insert a record into another table/database detailing what changed and who by.
You'd need three triggers, one for insert, update and delete respectively, and for each of those you use the "inserted" and "deleted" tables (system tables maintained by SQL) to retrieve what has been done. To retrieve who made the change you can query IDENT_CURRENT
which returns the last identity value for a specific table.
See :
Triggers -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms189799(v=sql.100).aspx
Inserted & deleted tables -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191300(v=sql.100).aspx
INDENT_CURRENT -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175098(v=sql.100).aspx
There may be better / more up to date ways to do this, but I've used this method successfully in the past, albeit a long time ago (on a SQL 2000 box I think!).

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