Can we check who deleted what from SQL Server 2008

Question

Someone deleted few rows off a very important table in SQL Server 2008 few weeks back, I wonder if I can check log or something, or if I can recover the rows.

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Answer 1

You can recover the records if you have backups of some kind. If you where logging every action then you should be able to check it out.

And finally, this link is questioning exactly about same issue. On comments to that questions you can find this other link on how to read transaction logs

Answer 2

Complementing the previous answer, an easiest way for "next time" that this happens would be to enable CDC to track changes on your tables.

Here is a very good article