sqlbless

SQL-Bless

The SQL-Bless is a command-line database client like SQL*Plus or psql.

• Emacs-like keybindings for inline editing of multiple lines of SQL.
  • The action of Enter key will only insert a line feed code.
  • Press Ctrl-Enter to execute the input.
• Save the result of SELECT in CSV format
• Oracle and PostgreSQL are supported.
  • Any database supported by Go's "database/sql" can be used with a small amount of extra code in dbspecs.go
• Auto commit is disabled.

Supported commands

• SELECT / INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE

  • INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE begin the transaction automatically.

• COMMIT / ROLLBACK

• SPOOL

  • spool FILENAME .. open FILENAME and write log and output.
  • spool off .. stop spooling and close.

• EXIT / QUIT

  • Rollback a transaction and exit SQL-Bless.

• START filename

  • Start the SQL script given with filename

• REM comments

• Semicolon ; is a statement seperator when script is executed.

• When sql is input interactively, Semicolon ; is ignored.

Example of a spooled file

# (2023-04-17 22:52:16)
# select *
#   from tab
#  where rownum < 5
TNAME,TABTYPE,CLUSTERID
AQ$_INTERNET_AGENTS,TABLE,<NULL>
AQ$_INTERNET_AGENT_PRIVS,TABLE,<NULL>
AQ$_KEY_SHARD_MAP,TABLE,<NULL>
AQ$_QUEUES,TABLE,<NULL>
# (2023-04-17 22:52:20)
# history
0,2023-04-17 22:52:05,spool hoge
1,2023-04-17 22:52:16,"select *
  from tab
 where rownum < 5"
2,2023-04-17 22:52:20,history

Install

Download the binary package from Releases and extract the executable.

for scoop-installer

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hymkor/sqlbless/master/sqlbless.json

or

scoop bucket add hymkor https://github.com/hymkor/scoop-bucket
scoop install sqlbless

How to start

$ sqlbless {options} DRIVERNAME "DATASOURCENAME"

Oracle

$ sqlbless oracle oracle://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME:PORT/SERVICE

• Use https://github.com/sijms/go-ora

PostgreSQL

$ sqlbless postgres "host=127.0.0.1 port=5555 user=USERNAME password=PASSWORD dbname=DBNAME sslmode=disable"

• Use https://github.com/lib/pq

SQL Server

$ sqlbless sqlserver "sqlserver://@localhost?database=master"
( Windows authentication )

• Use https://github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb

MySQL

$ sqlbless.exe mysql user:password@/database

• Use http://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql

Common Options

• -crlf
  • Use CRLF
• -fs string
  • Set a field separator (default ",")
• -null string
  • Set a string representing NULL (default "<NULL>")
• -tsv
  • Use TAB as seperator
• -f string
  • Start the script