Introducing: TSQLMacro

Adam Machanic — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:37:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce the official introduction of the TSQLMacro framework, version 0.5 (prebeta-1). This version is functionally complete based on the initial design spec, features are stable, and I am not currently aware of any bugs.

So what is TSQLMacro? You can get a complete rundown here. But in essence, TSQLMacro is my attempt to bring C/C++-style macro and preprocessor support into TSQL, in order to ease certain development burdens. Please read the TSQLMacro Introduction for a detailed analysis of those issues.

And of course, there's a download page. But I highly recommend reading up before downloading -- I haven't yet included a readme or any other kind of documentation in the download.

As always -- and especially, in this case -- I would appreciate any comments, feedback, suggestions, rants, or other things you'd like to tell me about this project! I've spent a huge amount of time -- way too much time -- working on this, so I'm eager to see what people think! Thanks!

Introducing: TSQLAssert

Adam Machanic — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:37:00 GMT

Yes, yet another introduction (although there was almost zero reaction to yesterday's introduction).

Today, I introduce the first thing built on top of TSQLMacro. I proudly present the TSQLAssert debug assertion framework!

For those of you who've worked with assertions before, I think you'll enjoy this quite a bit. It provides similar functionality to assertions in other languages, and I think it will be great for debugging and perhaps as an addition to environments using TSQLUnit.

For those of you who haven't felt the joy that is asserting in your code, check out the following intro in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertion_%28computing%29

As always, feedback is appreciated! Thank you!

Adam Machanic : T-SQL, developer tools

Introducing: TSQLMacro

Introducing: TSQLAssert