How can I see the raw SQL queries Django is running?

See the docs FAQ: "How can I see the raw SQL queries Django is running?"

django.db.connection.queries contains a list of the SQL queries:

from django.db import connection
print(connection.queries)

Querysets also have a query attribute containing the query to be executed:

print(MyModel.objects.filter(name="my name").query)

Note that the output of the query is not valid SQL, because:

"Django never actually interpolates the parameters: it sends the query and the parameters separately to the database adapter, which performs the appropriate operations."

From Django bug report #17741.

Because of that, you should not send query output directly to a database.

Django-extensions have a command shell_plus with a parameter print-sql

./manage.py shell_plus --print-sql

In django-shell all executed queries will be printed

Ex.:

User.objects.get(pk=1)
SELECT "auth_user"."id",
       "auth_user"."password",
       "auth_user"."last_login",
       "auth_user"."is_superuser",
       "auth_user"."username",
       "auth_user"."first_name",
       "auth_user"."last_name",
       "auth_user"."email",
       "auth_user"."is_staff",
       "auth_user"."is_active",
       "auth_user"."date_joined"
FROM "auth_user"
WHERE "auth_user"."id" = 1

Execution time: 0.002466s [Database: default]

<User: username>

Take a look at debug_toolbar, it's very useful for debugging.

Documentation and source is available at http://django-debug-toolbar.readthedocs.io/.