Episode

mssql-cli, an open source and cross-platform CLI for SQL Server

This week's episode of Data Exposed welcomes Abhi Abhishek to the show! Abhi is a Software Engineer in the SQL Server engineering group focusing on SQL Tools. Today he is in the studio to talk about mssql-cli, a new open source and cross-platform command line tool for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

In this session, Abhi talks about the history of mssql-cli by forking pgcli, along with mssql-cli features including:

  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Intellisense
  • Output formatting w/ horizontal paging
  • Multi-line mode
  • Join suggestions
  • Special Commands
  • History management

To learn more or install mssql-cli, visit our Github at https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli.

For any feature requests or issues, please report on our Github Issues page https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli/issues

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