Find All Queries Run Against a Table

This script will show you all the queries that have run against a particular table since the last time SQL Server was rebooted. This query is good in helping to define indexes. This only works against SQL 2008.

[cc lang=”sql”]
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 1000
ProcedureName = OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(qt.objectid) + ‘.’ + OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid)
,SQLStatement = SUBSTRING(
qt.Text
,(qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1
,CASE qs.statement_end_offset
WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.text)
ELSE qs.statement_end_offset
END – (qs.statement_start_offset/2) + 1
)
,DiskReads = qs.total_physical_reads — The worst reads, disk reads
,MemoryReads = qs.total_logical_reads –Logical Reads are memory reads
,ExecutionCount = qs.execution_count
,CPUTime = qs.total_worker_time
,DiskWaitAndCPUTime = qs.total_elapsed_time
,MemoryWrites = qs.max_logical_writes
,DateCached = qs.creation_time
,DatabaseName = DB_Name(qt.dbid)
,LastExecutionTime = qs.last_execution_time
–,sre.*
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities(
OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(qt.objectid) + ‘.’ + OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid)
, ‘OBJECT’
) sre
WHERE qt.dbid = db_id() — Filter by current database
AND sre.referenced_schema_name + ‘.’ + sre.referenced_entity_name = ‘dbo.Table’
[/cc]