One of the most exciting features in SQL Enlight is the ability to create your own static analysis rules. This is very powerful feature which can be of great use and unleash almost unlimited number of possibilities for the ones who consider trying it.

The current post is the first of a series of blog posts which to guide you through the creation of custom static code analysis rules with SQL Enlight. Each of the subsequent articles will cover the implementation of several interesting analysis rule and will point some unfortunately not so obvious features and abilities of SQL Enlight static code analysis engine.

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We are happy to announce the release of our new online T-SQL Analyzer.

The T-SQL Analyzer uses the SQL Enlight static code analysis engine to check T-SQL code for compliance with best practices.

The online tool supports the following set of analysis rules: all rules from SA0001 to SA0039 and also rules SA0042, SA0043, SA0051, SA0053 and SA0054.

You can check here for more information about the analysis rules.

We are very excited to announce that the latest and greatest version of SQL Enlight, version 1.7.2.509, is now available for download.
The new release of SQL Enlight includes: several usability improvements, 13 absolutely new analysis rules, and at last but definitely not at least is the support for directly executing database queries from within the analysis rules.

This new direct queries support, even not being exceptional by its means is quite useful and important and enables new opportunities for not only implementing static code analysis rules, but also for dynamic database analysis with SQL Enlight. (more…)

We have just released 9 brand new analysis rules for SQL Enlight. (more…)

Today we released an update of SQL Enlight 1.7 which includes several usability improvements:

- Unicode support added for identifier names.

- Context only rules are now applied when analyzing server objects using the command line tool and the MSBuild tasks. This feature was missing in the previous release.

- The Context Only rules are can be applied either with using Analyze with Specific Rules… command or when analyzing databases or servers. For instance, the Context Only rules will be skipped when a stored procedure is analyzed, but will be included when a database is selected for analysis from Object Explorer. The Context Only rules will be always applied when explicitly selected.

- Each analysis rule can be separately configured whether to require its parameters to be entered before analysis or not to require parameters. This way, the parameters dialog won’t be shown when rules with no required parameters are selected, but then the default rule parameter values will be used.

- A new Error list command which to instantly show the SQL Enlight Error List window is now added to the SQL Enlight menu.

You can find and download the updated SQL Enlight version here.