Make -q and -i work together

[0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]

Right now, both sqlcmd and go-sqlcmd don't allow you to specify -q and -i options together. Below is the output of both commands.

c:\temp>sqlcmd -S . -E -q "SET PARSEONLY ON" -i test.sql
Sqlcmd: The i and the -Q/-q options are mutually exclusive.
c:\temp>sqlcmdgo -S . -E -q "SET PARSEONLY ON" -i test.sql
sqlcmdgo: error: --input-file and --initial-query can't be used together
c:\temp>

If this is possible, it will be very useful. In my case, I have a huge file test.sql that is not practical to open in SSMS. What I want is to check its syntax, just like what we normally do by clicking the Parse toolbar button in SSMS. What SSMS actually does is run the command SET PARSEONLY ON before your actually SQL code. If go-sqlcmd can allow us to execute a custom command and then an SQL file, it will basically allow us to parse huge SQL files without having to prepend the literal text SET PARSEONLY ON at the beginng of the file. This feature might be useful in some other cases, too. Hope you can consider adding this. Thanks.

[shueybubbles]

Thanx for opening the issue!
It's a reasonable request for sure.
In the meantime, you can have multiple -i files, so you could put your SET PARSEONLY ON in a temp file and include that as the first file in the -i list.

[0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]

Yes, it works! I didn't know you can specify multiple -i options. Thanks for sharing the tip!