thanks for the link. I have looked over the document. It appears that the default trace is a very useful tool...hopefully i can get it working 😀

It appears to be...

Hi,

Thanks to you both for taking the time to reply to me. I have looked at the table that this returns :

SELECT *

FROM fn_trace_gettable

('C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\log.trc',...