• I'm not sure that I understand your question; it seems that you are leaving out some details. Are you tracing for auditing purposes?

    Since tables on a linked server are outside the instance you are running Trace from, you will not be able to capture access to these tables. If the linked server is another SQL Server, you can run Trace on that server to capture access to objects on that server.

    [font="Times New Roman"]Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, www.sommarskog.se[/font]