CREATE EVENT SESSION [DarkQueries] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_statement_recompile( ACTION(sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.sql_text) WHERE ([recompile_cause]=(11))) -- Option (RECOMPILE) Requested ADD TARGET package0.event_file(SET filename=N'DarkQueries'); ALTER EVENT SESSION [DarkQueries] ON SERVER STATE = START; SELECT DarkQueryData.eventDate, DB_NAME(DarkQueryData.database_id) as DatabaseName, DarkQueryData.object_type, COALESCE(DarkQueryData.sql_text, OBJECT_NAME(DarkQueryData.object_id, DarkQueryData.database_id)) command, DarkQueryData.recompile_cause FROM sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file ( 'DarkQueries*xel', null, null, null) event_file_value CROSS APPLY ( SELECT CAST(event_file_value.[event_data] as xml) ) event_file_value_xml ([xml]) CROSS APPLY ( SELECT event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/@timestamp)[1]', 'datetime') as eventDate, event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/action[@name="sql_text"]/value)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as sql_text, event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/data[@name="object_type"]/text)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)') as object_type, event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/data[@name="object_id"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') as object_id, event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/data[@name="source_database_id"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') as database_id, event_file_value_xml.[xml].value('(event/data[@name="recompile_cause"]/text)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)') as recompile_cause ) as DarkQueryData ORDER BY eventDate DESC;