According to Entity Framework Logging:
The DbContext.Database.Log property can be set to a delegate for any method that takes a string. Most commonly it is used with any TextWriter by setting it to the “Write” method of that TextWriter. All SQL generated by the current context will be logged to that writer. For example, the following code will log SQL to the console:
using (var context = new BlogContext())
{
context.Database.Log = Console.Write;
// Your code here...
}
in the above way you should be able to log everything.
The following gets logged:
When the Log property is set all of the following will be logged:
- SQL for all different kinds of commands. For example:
- Queries, including normal LINQ queries, eSQL queries, and raw queries from methods such as SqlQuery
- Inserts, updates, and deletes generated as part of SaveChanges
- Relationship loading queries such as those generated by lazy loading
- Parameters
- Whether or not the command is being executed asynchronously
- A timestamp indicating when the command started executing
- Whether or not the command completed successfully, failed by throwing an exception, or, for async, was canceled
- Some indication of the result value
- The approximate amount of time it took to execute the command. Note that this is the time from sending the command to getting the
result object back. It does not include time to read the results.
Looking at the example output above, each of the four commands logged
are:
- The query resulting from the call to context.Blogs.First
- Notice that the ToString method of getting the SQL would not have worked for this query since “First” does not provide an
IQueryable on which ToString could be called
- The query resulting from the lazy-loading of blog.Posts
- Notice the parameter details for the key value for which lazy loading is happening
- Only properties of the parameter that are set to non-default values are logged. For example, the Size property is only shown if it
is non-zero.
- Two commands resulting from SaveChangesAsync; one for the update to change a post title, the other for an insert to add a new post
- Notice the parameter details for the FK and Title properties
- Notice that these commands are being executed asynchronously
