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Add ability to import/export data to/from Parquet files with SQLCMD

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Assessment

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, data, database

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by narrowing the requested Parquet and Delta import/export scope for go-sqlcmd, then define supported commands, filtering behavior, and verification cases as the completion criteria.

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Description

enhancement

Creating this placeholder for the investigation of adding import/export functionality to go-sqlcmd.

Main use cases would include:

  1. Output SQL Server query results to parquet files
  2. Read data from parquet files for display of some or all rows on screen to check contents of file
  3. Read data from parquet files and insert into table in SQL Server database
  4. Be able to read both standalone parquet files as well as delta
  5. Perform basic filtering via SQL-like where clause or regex by column

Additional possibilities include:

  1. Output SQL Server query results to json, csv, xls files
  2. Convert json, csv, xls to parquet
  3. Convert parquet, including delta, to json, csv, xls
  4. Convert subset of rows between formats - ex: "Take customer data from delta store and export all customers in Chicago to xls"
Dominant language
Go
Stars
595
Forks
91
Avg merge
9h 35m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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