Is there a way to get update time stamp of given record attribute in SQL Server?

Question

I have a table containing few records, which are often being updated. There is no field, like "UpdateTimeStamp" and i have no possibility to create it. Is there any SQL Server function (or some other way) to get the last update time, but for a certain attribute ( column ), not the whole record? Thanks for any help

Answer 1

SQL Server offers a feature called Change Data Capture that can do what you need. However, it is not turned on by default, and it requires significant additional server resources, since you're effectively doubling the server workload and perpetually storing all your transactional history.