• also, look at this rather long thread:

    Select table names from queries

    in that thread you'll find a lot of ideas, but the one i'm referring to is Eugene Elutin's posts on page 4 of the thread, where he is reading the execution plan cache and parsing the xml for the table values:

    Lowell


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