Logging ALL Queries on a SQL Server 2008 Express Database?

Question

Is there a way to tell SQL Server 2008 Express to log every query (including each and every SELECT Query!) into a file?

It\'s a Development machine, so the negative

Answer 1

…Late answer but I hope it would be useful to other readers here…

Using SQL Server Express with advanced auditing requirements such as this is not really optimal unless it’s only in development environment.

You can use traces (www.broes.nl/2011/10/profiling-on-sql-server-express/) to get the data you need but you’d have to parse these yourself.

There are third party tools that can do this but their cost will be quite high. Log explorer from ApexSQL can log everything but select and Idera’s compliance manager will log select statements as well but it’s cost is a lot higher.