microsoft / microsoft/go-sqlcmd

Define a settings file for sqlcmd app

Open
#92 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

enhancement
Dominant language
Go
Stars
595
Forks
91
Avg merge
9h 35m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

Trying to manage every possible setting through command line switches and environment variables can get unwieldy. We could create a .sqlcmdrc file in the user's profile that stores various settings which would be overridden by command line switches and environment variables.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing sqlcmd handling for command-line switches and environment variables. Define the user-profile .sqlcmdrc settings and document or test the precedence so command-line switches and environment variables override file values.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
28/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.