diff --git a/core/util.inc.php b/core/util.inc.php
index 7005d840..1def3356 100644
--- a/core/util.inc.php
+++ b/core/util.inc.php
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ function check_cli() {
  */
 function _count_execs($db, $sql, $inputarray) {
 	global $_execs;
-	if(DEBUG) {
+	if(DEBUG_SQL) {
 		$fp = @fopen("data/sql.log", "a");
 		if($fp) {
 			if(is_array($inputarray)) {
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 9df65aeb..5a60f335 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ function _d($name, $value) {if(!defined($name)) define($name, $value);}
 _d("DATABASE_DSN", null);    // string   PDO database connection details
 _d("CACHE_DSN", null);       // string   cache connection details
 _d("DEBUG", false);          // boolean  print various debugging details
+_d("DEBUG_SQL", false);      // boolean  dump SQL queries to data/sql.log
 _d("COVERAGE", false);       // boolean  activate xdebug coverage monitor
 _d("CONTEXT", null);         // string   file to log performance data into
 _d("CACHE_MEMCACHE", false); // boolean  store complete rendered pages in memcache