Store any transaction in log table SQL Server - sql

Question

I have lots of tables in my SQL Server database. When any action happens, like an Insert, Update, Delete, I want to store the data in a Log table as shown here:
Product table:
| ID | Name | Other |
| --- | ------- | --- |
| 1 | Book | ... |
| 2 | Bicycle | ... |
If any Insert, Update or Delete happens, I want to have something like this:
Log table:
| ID | RowId | TableName | Action |
| --- | ------- | ---------- | ------ |
| 1 | 1 | Product | Insert |
| 2 | 2 | Product | Insert |
| 3 | 15 | Category | Update |
| 4 | 60 | Customer | Insert |
I'm using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4000.0 (X64) Express edition with Advanced Services - some features might not be available for me (reference to documentation).
For a single table a trigger is a good idea and it works fine, but what about all tables? As the example shows, Category and Customer tables are other tables in my database.

Answer 1

If your problem is the number of triggers, you should create; then create a job to create the trigger when a new table has been created. The below code checks the tables that have not that kind of triggers using specific formula of naming. In my example tablename plus '_dml_audit'. You can change it anyway.
Set NOCOUNT ON
select Concat (QUOTENAME(sch.name) , '.' , QUOTENAME(tbl.name)) TableNames
into #Tables
From sys.tables tbl
INNER JOIN sys.schemas sch on sch.schema_id = tbl.schema_id
LEFT JOIN sys.triggers trg on tbl.object_id = trg.parent_id and trg.name like tbl.name + '_dml_audit'
Where trg.object_id is null
GO
exec sp_MSforeachtable 'IF ''?'' IN (Select TableNames FROM #Tables) Begin PRINT ''?'' END'
Drop Table #Tables
For older version that does not support #table use this:
Create Table TempTable (TableNames sysname)
GO
Insert TempTable
SELECT Concat ('[', sch.name , '].[' , tbl.name, ']') TableNames
From sys.tables tbl
INNER JOIN sys.schemas sch on sch.schema_id = tbl.schema_id
LEFT JOIN sys.triggers trg on tbl.object_id = trg.parent_id and trg.name like tbl.name + '_dml_audit'
Where trg.object_id is null
GO
exec sp_MSforeachtable 'IF ''?'' IN (Select TableNames FROM TempTable) Begin PRINT ''?'' END'
GO
Drop Table TempTable
Replace Trigger Definition with the PRINT statement and Define a job for it.