I don't know if you will consider this "easy" but SQL Server Profiler should do the trick. Look for the event class 'TSQL'

See if this helps...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/ss2kidbp.mspx

With a level of "grasshopper" I was expecting more references to Entemology or Kung Fu 😉

Yes, it takes longer to do inserts/updates on tables that are heavily indexed because of the extra overhead of indexing the new data. Since you are running these processes...