Last week we released a new version of SQL Enlight – 1.7.2.513.
It contains just small fixes and 2 new features:

• A new layout rule ‘Miscellaneous->Keywords padding’.

-- Keyword Padding option set to 10:
SELECT     ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID ,
           AVG( UnitPrice ) AS 'Average Price' ,
           SUM( LineTotal ) AS SubTotal
FROM       Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE      SpecialOfferID IN(  1 ,
                               2 ,
                               6 ,
                               9 )
GROUP BY   ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID
ORDER BY   ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID DESC

-- Keyword Padding option set to 0:

SELECT ProductID ,
       SpecialOfferID ,
       AVG( UnitPrice ) AS 'Average Price' ,
       SUM( LineTotal ) AS SubTotal
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE  SpecialOfferID IN(  1 ,
                           2 ,
                           6 ,
                           9 )
GROUP BY ProductID ,
         SpecialOfferID
ORDER BY ProductID ,
         SpecialOfferID DESC

• A new XSLT extension method ‘execute-query-plan’ which to enable support for query plan analysis.

We will describe in more detail the usage of this method in the next post.

The new version is already available for download here.

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.

The SQL Enlight analysis templates are XML files that contain analysis rules and analysis groups definitions. The templates can be imported in SQL Enlight and this way can update or add new rules to the currently supported set of rules. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »