how can i see the last 100 select statements that were run by any user

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how can i see the last 100 select statements that were run by any user

VoldemarG

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November 14, 2019 at 6:13 pm

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how can i see the last 100 select statements that were run by any user against a particular table?
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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 1

Sorry,unless you have some auditing in place, before it happened, it is not possible.

you can get basically the last executed information for current connections from the DMV's, or using sp_whoisactive, for example, but not any history, SQL does not do that by default, you would have to add something for that, ad a monitoring tool, etc.

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webrunner SSC-Dedicated Points: 31720 More actions · Answer 2

What Lowell said.
See also these links for explanations of SQL auditing options. But the bottom line (again, as Lowell said), you need to plan, install, and start that monitoring/auditing first. Only then can the setup start capturing the SQL queries you want

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/making-good-use-of-sql-server-auditing-1

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/202357/log-all-sql-server-queries-with-their-durations

https://www.sqlshack.com/various-techniques-to-audit-sql-server-databases/

https://www.sqlshack.com/sql-server-auditing-server-database-audit-specifications/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/auditing/sql-server-audit-database-engine?view=sql-server-ver15

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