Add a "not yet implemented" error for all back-compat switches so user gets an actionable error message

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#496 opened on Jan 2, 2024 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: go, sql
Domain: cli

Research direction

Start by comparing the old ODBC sqlcmd switches with the go-sqlcmd command-line parsing and identify switches that are not implemented. Check how the existing -N handling reports invalid usage, then add stub behavior for each missing switch with an actionable error message; done means unsupported back-compat switches no longer fall through to an ambiguous failure.

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Description

enhancement sqlcmd switch

If there are any switches left from the old ODBC sqlcmd that are not yet implemented in the new go-sqlcmd, please put in a stub implementation for go-sqlcmd now, which gives an actionable error message.

We are seeing some cases where go-sqlcmd is being drop in replaced with the old ODBC sqlcmd and the swithch synatac isn't identical (-N right now is an example, -N in go-sqlcmd needs a parameters, e.g. -N true, whereas in ODBC sqlcmd, it is just "-N")

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