Extended Events and Views

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  There isn't an easy to monitor just a table. Now, you could capture sql_batch_complete events and do a search inside the query text for your table name as a filter. However, it's going to be a somewhat poor filter and might put some load on the server. You'd want to experiment with this carefully. It won't show you any views accessing the table, because, as you say, SELECT * FROM MyView, doesn't show which tables are in the view. To capture views, you'd need to add an additional filter, again on the query, and look for the views, that you can look up on your own, that MIGHT access the table (the optimizer can eliminate tables from a view through part of the optimization process called simplification, where it determines if all tables listed in the query are needed in order to satisfy it). You would also need to walk through your stored procedures and identify which of those is hitting the table in question. Those are easy to filter since rpc_completed, the event you need, lists the object name. Simplest part of the equation here.
  
  I'm not sure how you'd do prepared statements though, if you have those. That would take some experimentation.
  
  But yeah, as you can see from all this, trying to monitor access to a table is very difficult. Why do you need to do that? Is there another way to satisfy the business need?

  GrantF May 09, 2024 16:43

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  Mishaal Sheikh December 05, 2025 14:06

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  This is a really interesting monitoring challenge. From my experience, tracking direct table access is usually much easier than tracing what happens inside views. Views often get expanded and optimized by the query engine, which makes their internal logic harder to capture unless you’re using more detailed execution or query plan events. You may need to look into statement-level or query plan–related events rather than just object access. Reading through similar technical discussions feels a bit like working with Online Dissertation Writers, you often have to dig deeper into the underlying structure to truly understand what’s happening, not just what appears on the surface.

   

  EricaCarl February 09, 2026 09:37

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