diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7aa0121..5a0f447 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <groupId>io.cdap.plugin</groupId>
   <artifactId>cdc-plugins</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>2.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>cdc-plugins</name>
 
   <licenses>
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
     <netty.version>4.1.16.Final</netty.version>
     <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
     <!-- properties for script build step that creates the config files for the artifacts -->
-    <app.parents>system:cdap-data-streams[6.0.0,7.0.0)</app.parents>
+    <app.parents>system:cdap-data-streams[6.0.0-SNAPSHOT,7.0.0)</app.parents>
     <main.basedir>${project.basedir}</main.basedir>
 
     <skip.performance.test>true</skip.performance.test>
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTInputDStream.java b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTInputDStream.java
index 1947c23..842520f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTInputDStream.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTInputDStream.java
@@ -58,14 +58,22 @@ public class CTInputDStream extends InputDStream<StructuredRecord> {
   private long trackingOffset;
   private long failureStartTime;
   private boolean isFailing;
+  private boolean forceFailure;
+  private final Set<String> operationsList;
+  private int retentionDays;
+  private String retentionColumn;
 
-  CTInputDStream(StreamingContext ssc, JdbcRDD.ConnectionFactory connectionFactory,
-                 Set<String> tableWhitelist, long startingOffset, long maxRetrySeconds, int maxBatchSize) {
+  CTInputDStream(StreamingContext ssc, JdbcRDD.ConnectionFactory connectionFactory, Set<String> operationsList,
+                 int retentionDays, String retentionColumn, Set<String> tableWhitelist, long startingOffset,
+                 long maxRetrySeconds, int maxBatchSize) {
     super(ssc, ClassTag$.MODULE$.apply(StructuredRecord.class));
     this.connectionFactory = connectionFactory;
     this.maxRetrySeconds = maxRetrySeconds;
     this.maxBatchSize = maxBatchSize;
     this.tableWhitelist = Collections.unmodifiableSet(new HashSet<>(tableWhitelist));
+    this.operationsList = Collections.unmodifiableSet(new HashSet<>(operationsList));
+    this.retentionDays = retentionDays;
+    this.retentionColumn = retentionColumn;
     // if not current tracking version is given initialize it to 0
     trackingOffset = startingOffset;
   }
@@ -90,7 +98,7 @@ public Option<RDD<StructuredRecord>> compute(Time validTime) {
 
   private boolean shouldFail() {
     long timeElapsed = nowInSeconds() - failureStartTime;
-    return maxRetrySeconds == 0 || (isFailing && timeElapsed > maxRetrySeconds);
+    return forceFailure || maxRetrySeconds == 0 || (isFailing && timeElapsed > maxRetrySeconds);
   }
 
   private static long nowInSeconds() {
@@ -113,7 +121,16 @@ private Option<RDD<StructuredRecord>> doCompute(Time validTime) throws Exception
       // retrieve the current highest tracking version
       long prev = trackingOffset;
       long cur = Math.min(getCurrentTrackingVersion(connection), prev + maxBatchSize);
-      LOG.info("Fetching changes from {} to {}", prev, cur);
+      if (prev != cur) {
+        LOG.info("Fetching changes from {} to {}", prev, cur);
+      }
+
+      if (cur < prev) {
+        this.forceFailure = true;
+        throw Throwables.propagate(new Exception("Current CT version is less than the previous",
+                new Error(String.format("Previous CT version: %s Current CT version: %s", prev, cur))));
+      }
+
       // get all the data changes (DML) for the ct enabled tables till current tracking version
       for (TableInformation tableInformation : tableInformations) {
         changeRDDs.add(getChangeData(tableInformation, prev, cur));
@@ -146,16 +163,28 @@ public void stop() {
   }
 
   private JavaRDD<StructuredRecord> getChangeData(TableInformation tableInformation, long prev, long cur) {
+    String retentionFilter = "";
+    if (!this.operationsList.contains("D") && this.retentionDays > 0 && this.retentionColumn != null) {
+      retentionFilter = String.format("OR [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION] = 'D' " +
+                      "AND [CT].%s > DATEADD(day, -%s, GETDATE()) ",
+              this.retentionColumn, this.retentionDays);
+    }
+
     String stmt = String.format("SELECT [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION] as CHANGE_TRACKING_VERSION, " +
                                   "[CT].[SYS_CHANGE_CREATION_VERSION], " +
                                   "[CT].[SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION], " +
-                                  "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as CDC_CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, " +
+                                  "SYSUTCDATETIME() as CDC_CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, " +
                                   "%s, %s FROM [%s] (nolock) " +
                                   "as [CI] RIGHT OUTER JOIN " +
-                                  "CHANGETABLE (CHANGES [%s], %s) as [CT] on %s where [CT]" +
-                                  ".[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION] > ? " +
-                                  "and [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION] <= ? ORDER BY [CT]" +
-                                  ".[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION]",
+                                  "CHANGETABLE (CHANGES [%s], %s) as [CT] on %s " +
+                                  "where [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION] > ? " +
+                                  "and [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION] <= ? " +
+                                  "and (" +
+                                    "[CT].[SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION] IN " +
+                                    "('" + String.join("','", this.operationsList) + "') " +
+                                    retentionFilter +
+                                  ") " +
+                                  "ORDER BY [CT].[SYS_CHANGE_VERSION]",
                                 getSelectColumns("CT", tableInformation.getPrimaryKeys()),
                                 getSelectColumns("CI", tableInformation.getValueColumnNames()),
                                 tableInformation.getName(), tableInformation.getName(), prev,
@@ -163,7 +192,8 @@ private JavaRDD<StructuredRecord> getChangeData(TableInformation tableInformatio
 
     LOG.debug("Querying for change data with statement {}", stmt);
 
-    //TODO Currently we are not partitioning the data. We should partition it for scalability
+    //TODO Currently we are not partitioning the data. We should p
+    //53™1artition it for scalability
     return JdbcRDD.create(getJavaSparkContext(), connectionFactory, stmt, prev, cur, 1,
                           new ResultSetToDMLRecord(tableInformation));
   }
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServer.java b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServer.java
index e71b7e8..47eedcb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServer.java
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ public JavaDStream<StructuredRecord> getStream(StreamingContext context) throws
     LOG.info("Creating change information dstream");
     ClassTag<StructuredRecord> tag = ClassTag$.MODULE$.apply(StructuredRecord.class);
     CTInputDStream dstream = new CTInputDStream(context.getSparkStreamingContext().ssc(), connectionFactory,
-                                                conf.getTableWhitelist(), conf.getSequenceStartNum(),
-                                                conf.getMaxRetrySeconds(), conf.getMaxBatchSize());
+            conf.getOperationsList(), conf.getRetentionDays(), conf.getRetentionColumn(), conf.getTableWhitelist(),
+            conf.getSequenceStartNum(), conf.getMaxRetrySeconds(), conf.getMaxBatchSize());
     return JavaDStream.fromDStream(dstream, tag)
       .mapToPair(structuredRecord -> new Tuple2<>("", structuredRecord))
       // map the dstream with schema state store to detect changes in schema
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServerConfig.java b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServerConfig.java
index 4f72bfa..99c6869 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServerConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/cdap/plugin/cdc/source/sqlserver/CTSQLServerConfig.java
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ public class CTSQLServerConfig extends CDCReferencePluginConfig {
   public static final String TABLE_WHITELIST = "tableWhitelist";
   public static final String JDBC_PLUGIN_NAME = "jdbcPluginName";
   public static final String CONNECTION_STRING = "connectionString";
+  public static final String OPERATIONS_LIST = "operationsList";
+  public static final String RETENTION_DAYS = "retentionDays";
+  public static final String RETENTION_COLUMN = "retentionColumn";
 
   @Name(HOST_NAME)
   @Description("SQL Server hostname. This is not required if a connection string was specified.")
@@ -104,6 +107,22 @@ public class CTSQLServerConfig extends CDCReferencePluginConfig {
   @Nullable
   private final String connectionString;
 
+  @Name(OPERATIONS_LIST)
+  @Description("The list of operations to read (INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE)")
+  @Nullable
+  private final String operationsList;
+
+  @Name(RETENTION_DAYS)
+  @Description("Retention period for a table if DELETE operation is turned off. " +
+          "In this period all deletes will be imported. Set to 0 to ignore all deletes")
+  @Nullable
+  private final int retentionDays;
+
+  @Name(RETENTION_COLUMN)
+  @Description("Timestamp column to use for retention period (should be a part of Primary Key)")
+  @Nullable
+  private final String retentionColumn;
+
   public CTSQLServerConfig() {
     super("");
     this.hostname = null;
@@ -117,6 +136,9 @@ public CTSQLServerConfig() {
     this.tableWhitelist = null;
     this.jdbcPluginName = null;
     this.connectionString = null;
+    this.operationsList = null;
+    this.retentionDays = 0;
+    this.retentionColumn = null;
   }
 
   public String getHostname() {
@@ -170,6 +192,21 @@ public String getConnectionString() {
     return String.format("jdbc:sqlserver://%s:%s;DatabaseName=%s", hostname, port, dbName);
   }
 
+  public Set<String> getOperationsList() {
+    return operationsList == null ? Collections.emptySet() :
+            Arrays.stream(operationsList.split(",")).map(String::trim).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+  }
+
+
+  public int getRetentionDays() {
+    return retentionDays;
+  }
+
+  @Nullable
+  public String getRetentionColumn() {
+    return retentionColumn;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public void validate() {
     super.validate();
@@ -194,5 +231,14 @@ public void validate() {
     if (port != null && (port < 0 || port > 65535)) {
       throw new InvalidConfigPropertyException("Port number should be in range 0-65535", PORT);
     }
+
+    if (operationsList == null || operationsList.length() == 0) {
+      throw new InvalidConfigPropertyException("Operations list couldn't be empty", OPERATIONS_LIST);
+    }
+
+    if (retentionDays > 0 && retentionColumn == null) {
+      throw new InvalidConfigPropertyException("Please set the retention timestamp column", RETENTION_COLUMN);
+    }
+
   }
 }
diff --git a/widgets/CTSQLServer-streamingsource.json b/widgets/CTSQLServer-streamingsource.json
index 3ff4c9b..f26c8f4 100644
--- a/widgets/CTSQLServer-streamingsource.json
+++ b/widgets/CTSQLServer-streamingsource.json
@@ -76,6 +76,45 @@
     {
       "label": "Advanced",
       "properties": [
+        {
+          "name": "operationsList",
+          "label": "Statements list",
+          "widget-type": "multi-select",
+          "widget-attributes": {
+            "delimiter": ",",
+            "defaultValue": [
+              "I",
+              "U"
+            ],
+            "options": [
+              {
+                "id": "I",
+                "label": "INSERT"
+              },
+              {
+                "id": "U",
+                "label": "UPDATE"
+              },
+              {
+                "id": "D",
+                "label": "DELETE"
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "widget-type": "textbox",
+          "label": "Retention period (days)",
+          "name": "retentionDays",
+          "widget-attributes": {
+            "default": "0"
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "widget-type": "textbox",
+          "label": "Retention timestamp column",
+          "name": "retentionColumn"
+        },
         {
           "widget-type": "textbox",
           "label": "Max Retry Seconds",