Feature request: support ADO.NET connection strings

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#478 opened on Nov 16, 2023 11 comments 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: go, sql
Domain: cli, database

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing CLI parameters for server, user, password, and related connection settings, then compare them with the ADO.NET connection-string support in go-mssqldb. Resolve the proposed user experience, including whether to add --connection-string or -S, and define completion as accepting that string as an alternative to separate parameters.

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Description

enhancement sqlcmd switch

It would be very useful if there was a way to pass in an ADO.NET-style connection string instead of separate server/user/pw/etc params.

This is already supported by go-mssqldb, so I'm hoping that the amount of work required to add this feature wouldn't be excessive :)

If this sounds like a good idea, and we can get agreement on how the UX should look (a new flag --connection-string/-S perhaps), then I can probably work on creating a PR for this feature :)

Thanks,
Eric

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