In order to track every execution steps including the SQL generation when running a report, go to Project Configuration>Statistics>General, and make sure Report job steps has been checked under Advanced Statistics Collections Options as below:

After the data load, go to Strategy Enterprise Manager Project, and create a report with attribute "Report" and metric "RP SQL Engine Duration (hh:mm:ss)" under Public Objects\Metrics\Report Processing Analysis, which will show the time used to generate SQL in the format of timestamp as below:

The metric "RP SQL Engine Duration (hh:mm:ss)" calculate the time taken by a report job to generate SQL. However, for simple reports, the result of the metric may be too small to see the difference. In order to show the metric in the format of millisecond, modify the metric following below steps:


