The CONNECT statement establishes a connection with the DBMS. You establish a connection to send DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS or to retrieve DBMS data. The connection remains in effect ...

While checking SQL syntax itself is somewhat straightforward, [Joe]’s sql-lint tool will also check the semantics of it by looking up the actual database and performing sanity checks on it.

For example, let's say I'm updating 100 rows in a table. I'd like to know that a NULL is going to be inserted into a non-nullable field on one row via RAISEERROR, skip that row's update, and then ...

If you omit the CONNECT statement, an implicit connection is performed (by using default values for all database connection arguments) when the first EXECUTE statement is passed to the DBMS. See your ...