Reverse Table data engineering

  • I want to find out the source of a table's data is there a simple way to do this i.e. t1 has fields f1, f2, f3 how do I find out the source for f2 population.

  • you could run profiler and see what queries are hitting that table.


  • How do you do this?

  • From enterprise manager click tools and then SQL Profiler from the tools menu. This opens profiler. Click file , new, trace. Select your server and then the trace properties window comes up. On the filter tab set the filters to look at your database and table and run it. It will show all of the activity against the table.


  • Forgot to say -- Thanks

  • no problem, glad you got what you needed.


  • if f2 is named ell then you can also search sysobjects for distinct names (places) referencing it.

    In case some other areas that are not actively being used (which profiler will catch) reference it.

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