Using Change Data Capture in SSIS - how to handle schema changes

Question

I was asked to consider change data capture for a database recently.  I can see that from the database perspective, its quite nice.  When I considered how I'd do this in SSIS, it seemed pretty obvious that I might have a problem, but I wanted to
confirm here.
The database in question changes the schema about once per month in production.  We have a lot of controls in our environment, so everytime a tables schema is changed, I'd have to do a formal change request to deal with a change to my code
base, in this case my SSIS package; it can be a lot of work.   If I wanted to track the data changes for inserts, update and deletes using an SSIS package to send the data changes to the destination tables, would I have to change my SSIS package
with every schema change, or is there a way to keep the exact same SSIS package with CDC without having to change it every month?
Thanks,
Keith

Answer 1

Hi Keith,
What is your exact requirement?
If you want to capture the object_created, object_deleted or object_altered informations, you can try using
Extended events .
As mentioned in your OP:
"If I wanted to track the data changes for inserts, update and deletes using an SSIS package to send the data changes to the destination tables, would I have to change my SSIS package with
every schema change, or is there a way to keep the exact same SSIS package with CDC without having to change it every month?"
If you want the databases in two different environments to be in sync, then take periodic
backup and apply(restore) on the another destination DB.
(or)
you can also try with
SQL Server replication if it is really needed.
As I understand from your description, if you want the table data & schema to be in sync in two different database:
then create job [script that will drop the destination DB table & create the copy of source DB table ] as per your requirement:
--CREATE DATABASE db1
--CREATE DATABASE db2
USE db1
GO
CREATE TABLE tbl(Id INT)
USE db2
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SYS.OBJECTS WHERE name = 'tb1' and TYPE = 'u')
DROP TABLE dbo.tb1
SELECT * INTO db2.dbo.tb1 FROM db1.dbo.tbl
SELECT * FROM dbo.tb1
--DROP DATABASE db1,db2
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