Alan Yu announces mssql-cli, a command-line interface for SQL Server:
Mssql-cli is a new and interactive command line tool that provides the following key enhancements over sqlcmd in the Terminal environment:
- T-SQL IntelliSense
- Syntax highlighting
- Pretty formatting for query results, including Vertical Format
- Multi-line edit mode
- Configuration file support
Mssql-cli aims to offer an improved interactive command line experience for T-SQL. It is fully open source under the BSD-3 license, and a contribution to the dbcli organization, an open source suite of interactive CLI tools for relational databases including SQL Server, PostgresSQL, and MySQL. The command-line UI is written in Python and the tool leverages the same microservice backend (sqltoolsservice) that powers the VS Code SQL extension, SQL Operations Studio, and the other Python CLI tool we announced earlier, mssql-scripter.
Something very cool that Alan points out is that this is “the first time our team is contributing source code to an existing open source organization with a commitment to be a good citizen in an existing open source community.”