Configuring Change Data Capture

Hey All,

I am new to administrating SQL servers and have been tasked with enabling change data capture after all the data one of our critical tables was somehow deleted.  I was directed to this link by a coworker, but he has never enabled CDC before and wished me good luck.  The document has helped me get to the point where I am ready to enable CDC on the table itself, but I am confused about the gating roles setting and how to configure it for my users.  I would like to make it so that anyone with the ability to write to the table is tracked, but I don't want to limit myself to only those people in that role.  I would like admins to be tracked as well for security reasons.

Here is an example of the command I need to execute:

USE MyDB  
GO  
EXEC sys.sp_cdc_enable_table  
@source_schema = N'database1',  
@source_name   = N'dataTable',  
@role_name     = N'MyRole',  
@supports_net_changes = 1  
GO

Should I worry about specifying the gating role, or should I list it as NULL?  Does NULL apply the tracking to everyone or no one?  Also, I may have to apply this to multiple tables.   Can I chain the tables in the source name or should I run this command for each table?

Thank you for your help and I look forward to your responses.

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