NAME

       isql, iusql - unixODBC command-line interactive SQL tool

SYNOPSIS

       isql DSN [USER [PASSWORD]] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       isql  is  a command line tool which allows the user to execute SQL in batch or interactively. It has some
       interesting options such as an option to generate output wrapped in an HTML table.

       iusql is the same tool with built-in Unicode support.

ARGUMENTS

       DSN    The Data Source Name, which should be used to make connection to the database.  The data source is
              looked  for  in  the  /etc/odbc.ini  and  $HOME/.odbc.ini  files  in  that  order, with the latter
              overwriting the former.

       USER   Specifies the database user/role under which the connection should be made.

       PASSWORD
              Password for the specified USER.

OPTIONS

       -b     Run isql in non-interactive batch mode. In this mode,  the  isql  processes  its  standard  input,
              expecting one SQL command per line.

       -dDELIMITER
              Delimits columns with delimiter.

       -xHEX  Delimits  columns  with HEX, which is a hexadecimal code of the delimiting character in the format
              0xNN - i.e. 0x09 for the TAB character.

       -w     Format the result as HTML table.

       -c     Output the names of the columns on the first row. Has any effect only with the -d or -x options.

       -mNUM  Limit the column display width to NUM characters.

       -lLOCALE
              Sets locale to LOCALE.

       -q     Wrap the character fields in double quotes.

       -3     Use the ODBC 3 calls.

       -n     Use the new line processing. (multiple lines of SQL, terminated with command GO).

       -e     Use the SQLExecDirect instead of Prepare.

       -k     Use SQLDriverConnect.

       -v     Turn on the verbose mode, where the errors are fully described. Useful for debugging.

       --version
              Prints the program version and exits.

       -LNUM  Alter the maximum number of characters displayed from a character field to NUM characters. Default
              is 300.

COMMANDS

       This section briefly describes some isql runtime commands.

       help
              List all tables in the database.

       help table
              List all columns in the table.

       help help
              List all help options.

EXAMPLES

       $ isql WebDB MyID MyPWD -w -b < My.sql

       Connects  to the WebDB as user MyID with password MyPWD, then execute the commands in the My.sql file and
       returns the results wrapped in HTML table.  Each line in My.sql  must  contain  exactly  1  SQL  command,
       except for the last line, which must be blank (unless the -n option is specified).

FILES

       /etc/odbc.ini
              System-wide DSN definitions. See odbc.ini(5) for details.

       $HOME/.odbc.ini
              User-specific DSN definitions. See odbc.ini(5) for details.

SEE ALSO

       odbcinst(1), odbc.ini(5)

AUTHORS

       The  authors  of unixODBC are Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com> and Nick Gorham <nick@lurcher.org>.
       For the full list of contributors see the AUTHORS file.

COPYRIGHT

       unixODBC is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. For details about the license, see  the
       COPYING file.