![]() ![]() “Right aligned” and “Commas before” need to be in double quotes, when used at the command line.ĭo not apply any style layout. The name of the built-in Redgate formatting style can be one of: The path must be in double quotes at the command-line if you have a space anywhere in the path. If no style is specified, laying out of SQL will be skipped. ![]() The name of a built-in Redgate JSON layout formatting style, or the path to the JSON file for a custom style. If you don’t specify this parameter, it doesn’t create backups. If there is already a backup file in the directory, the formatter produces an anonymous and inscrutable error. bak extension, located next to the original file. The original SQL file will be backed up to a file with a. (This argument is required.) The path must be in double quotes in the command-line if you have a space anywhere in the path.Ĭreate backups of formatted files. Just provide either the file or directory to format. You can use the formatter for just a file or an entire directory. Long-Form Parameterīy using this option, you consent to the Redgate EULA found at End User License Agreement when running the command-line formatter. As well as bulk-applying the built-in or custom formatting styles that just make the code readable by adding or removing whitespace, you can specify settings for any of the Prompt formatting actions that can be run automatically with Format SQL (this doesn’t affect the default settings for these actions in Options | Styles). The following table explains the parameters it accepts. Then you must add the path of your new directory to the list of paths that the system uses to search for a command (i.e., to the PATH Environment variable. Then extract the zip file to this new directory. Firstly, you need to create a folder, such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Red Gate\SQL Formatter. The command line formatter is provided in a zip file called FormatCommandLine.zip in the SQL Prompt installation directory (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Red Gate\SQL Prompt 10). Obvious examples are when you’re obliged to port to case sensitive RSBMSs when your code is mixed case or when putting semicolons in for most relational database systems when all your code is written for SQL Server or Sybase. ![]() There are other occasional uses for bulk formatting, such as when preparing SQL code for other RDBMSs. It could contain maybe hundreds of individual object-level build scripts. Imagine having to format each of the Object-level directory of build scripts generated by SQL Compare, one by one in SSMS, before you commit it to source control. Processing a collection of synch scripts in SSMS, even with SQL Prompt, soon makes watching paint dry seem unbearably exciting by contrast. If you, like me, have been faced with a large directory of code that needs to be tidied up and made presentable, to meet ‘quality objectives’, then a bulk code-formatter will seem attractive. Nowadays, you are required to meet the organizations’ standards for code, to make code reviews easier and facilitate teamwork. If you use a GUI development tool, such as an Entity-Relationship Modelling tool, to generate build scripts or object-source directories from the live database, or from some other automated process, then you are increasingly likely to be faced with a problem. Unfortunately, the real life of a database developer involves compromises and occasionally, the use of automatically generated code. If all SQL code was lovingly hand-crafted by misty-eyed artisan developers, there wouldn’t be a need for code formatting. This means you can use SQL Prompt to refine the way you or your organization formats SQL code, and then use those same settings with the bulk formatter and run it from the command line to format a collection of SQL files. For this, the SQL Toolbelt and SQL Toolbelt Essentials bundles provide a DOS command-line formatter that uses the same codebase as SQL Prompt. However, there are several development tasks that require you to do the formatting as part of a process, or in bulk. He is a regular contributor to Simple Talk and SQLServerCentral.įor practically every purpose, it is better to format SQL Server SQL Files using SQL Prompt, within your favorite query editor. Phil Factor (real name withheld to protect the guilty), aka Database Mole, has 30 years of experience with database-intensive applications.ĭespite having once been shouted at by a furious Bill Gates at an exhibition in the early 1980s, he has remained resolutely anonymous throughout his career. ![]()
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