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SQL Server Management Studio – New Feature – Object Explorer Query Tracking

Pinal Dave
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Object Explorer Query Tracking exposed SSMS queries while expanding nodes in the historical release. I used its Output window for investigation.

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In that release, I opened View > Output, then expanded the Databases node in Object Explorer. The output showed the query used for the expansion and its elapsed time. That gave me a useful lead when a node was slow or returned an error.

Original SSMS View menu used to open the Output window.
Original SSMS View menu used to open the Output window.
Original Output-window query and timing from expanding an Object Explorer node.
Original Output-window query and timing from expanding an Object Explorer node.

This demonstrates the 2017 SSMS release. Current Output categories and diagnostics depend on the installed build. Check those categories before expecting identical messages.

The feature didn’t capture node Properties-dialog queries. It also wasn’t a general workload profiler. I kept the query, error and timing together when investigating expansion. Server-side evidence helps confirm what happened.

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Object Explorer tracking is not a workload profiler, it is a diagnostic for the supported UI activity.

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