Your application uses Entity Framework to retrieve and update a SQL Server database. Some operations against the data source take several seconds to execute. You need to examine the SQL commands that Entity Framework executes against the database.

What should you do?

Use the ToTraceString method to view the store commands for an ObjectQuery in the Entity Framework. The ToTraceString method is also available on the EntityCommand class.

The SQL Server Profiler shows how SQL Server resolves queries internally. This allows administrators to see exactly what Transact-SQL statements are submitted to the server and how the server accesses the database to return result sets.