Event Notifications in SQL Server

SQL Server 2005 and onwards provides event notifications mechanism for tracking all events or changes happening at the database or instance level. This can be done with DDL triggers or SQL traces, but event notifications have the advantage of being asynchronous in nature and running outside of the scope of the transaction and hence it can run inside (or be a part of) a database application to capture defined events without using the resources allocated to the transaction. For more details, click here.