Updated SQLcl: nicer inline editing and column completion

We updated the Early Adopter offering of SQLcl today.

Go get it.

But first, I’m assuming you’ve heard of SQLcl? If not –

Read the slidedeck, watch the movie.

We’ve put in a ton of enhancements and even more bug fixes.

And Kris showed off a new feature today that mimic’s our SQL Developer grid preference for displaying NULL ‘values’…

Make null values stand out #sqlcl pic.twitter.com/kBubvKHrUD

— krisrice (@krisrice) June 16, 2015

But what I want to talk about are the insight feature and the inline editor.

SQLcl HAS AN EDITOR BUILT-IN!

Yes, you can still call the ‘edit’ command, and bring up Notepad or vi, both defaults for Windows and *NIX.

Or you can set it to ‘inline’ and it will just launch the same editor you see when you try to arrow through the buffer of a statement you’re currently typing or have pasted in.

Some HELP might be in order at this point:

Note the DEFINE bit.

So in my login.sql, I have this:

SET sqlprompt "_user '@' _connect_identifier >"
SET sqlformat ansiconsole
define _EDITOR=inline
SET pagesize 25

Also, did you notice the bit about the Ctrl key sequences while editing in the inline editor?

Do you remember PC games from the 80’s? Up was always W, down was always S, and so on. Well that works now too. And at any time you want to just execute what you have in the editor, you have a hotkey for that too.

Let’s see a quick demo.

It’s much more fun to DO vs WATCH – so get the EA and start coding!

Expect lots and lots and lots of DEMO and some free stickers at KScope15 next week from Kris and I.