SQL-Bless

<English> / <Japanese>

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-J or Ctrl-Enter to execute the input.
• Save the result of SELECT in CSV format
• Supported RDBMS
  • SQLite3
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
• Allows editing database records directly, similar to a spreadsheet (with the EDIT command)
• Auto commit is disabled.

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Key	Binding
Enter, Ctrl-M	Insert a linefeed
Ctrl-Enter/J or ;+Enter1	Execute SQL
Ctrl-F/B	Move Cursor forward or backward
Ctrl-N/P	Move Cursor or refer history
Ctrl-C	Exit with rollback
Ctrl-D	Delete character or submit EOF (exit with rollback)
ALT-P, Ctrl-Up, PageUp	Insert the previous SQL (history)
ALT-N, Ctrl-Down, PageDown	Insert the next SQL (history)

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

• DESC [tablename] / \D [tablename]

  • When the tablename is given, show the specification of the the table
  • Without the tablename, show the list of tables.

• HISTORY

  • Show the history of input SQLs

• EDIT tablename [WHERE conditions...]

  • Start an editor to modify the selected records of the table.
  • In the editor, these keys are bound.
    • x or d: set NULL to the current cell
    • c: apply changes
    • q or ESC: quit without applying changes
  • Because the EDIT statement automatically generates SQL from data changed in the editor, it may not be able to properly represent SQL data for special types specific to individual databases. If you find it, we would appreciate it if you could contact us.

• ; (or the string specified with -term string) is a statement seperator when script is executed

• When sql is input interactively, terminator string (; or the string specified with -term string) 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.

via Scoop-installer (Windows)

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

Installing via Go

go install github.com/hymkor/sqlbless/cmd/sqlbless@latest

How to start

$ sqlbless {options} [DRIVERNAME] DATASOURCENAME

DRIVERNAME can be omitted when DATASOURCENAME contains DRIVERNAME.

SQLite3

$ sqlbless sqlite3 :memory:
$ sqlbless sqlite3 path/to/file.db

• The drivers used are https://github.com/glebarez/go-sqlite

Oracle

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

• The driver used is https://github.com/sijms/go-ora

PostgreSQL

$ sqlbless postgres host=127.0.0.1 port=5555 user=USERNAME password=PASSWORD dbname=DBNAME sslmode=disable
$ sqlbless postgres postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:5555/DBNAME?sslmode=verify-full
$ sqlbless postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:5555/DBNAME?sslmode=verify-full

• The driver used is https://github.com/lib/pq

SQL Server

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

• The driver used is https://github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb

MySQL

$ sqlbless.exe mysql user:password@/database

• The driver used is http://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
• The ?parseTime=true&loc=Local parameter is preset, but it can be overridden

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
• -submit-enter
  • Submit by [Enter] and insert a new line by [Ctrl]-[Enter]
• -debug
  • Print type-information in the header of SELECT and EDIT
• -help
  • Help

Footnotes

1. ; or the string specfied with the option -term string ↩