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Asked: 2026-06-02T05:33:19+00:00

I got this sample code. It works fine with all T-SQL code but if

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I got this sample code. It works fine with all T-SQL code but if I drop a table in SSMS by mouse clicks the event is not tracked – the question is why?

-- create the table to store the events
CREATE TABLE dbo.CREATE_TABLE_LOG (
eventTime datetime
, eventOwner nvarchar(100)
, eventTSQL nvarchar(3000)
)
GO
-- create the DDL trigger
CREATE TRIGGER DDLTrigger_CreateTable ON DATABASE FOR create_table, alter_table, drop_table
AS
DECLARE @data XML
SET @data = EVENTDATA()
INSERT INTO CREATE_TABLE_LOG
VALUES (
GETDATE()
, CURRENT_USER
, @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/CommandText)[1]',
'nvarchar(1000)')
)
GO
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve checked on both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008, given the logging table and the DDL trigger provided, it has correctly recorded the drop, regardless of how I dropped it in SSMS.

    Can you provide the exact menu / context menu commands you are using, and double check that you are not dropping the table in 1 database, and reading the log table in another (like you accidently created a duplicate log table in master).

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