Parsing SQL code in C# [closed]

Question

I want to parse SQL code using C#.

Specifically, is there any freely available parser which can parse SQL code and generate a tree or any other structure out of it? It should also generate the proper tree for nested structures.

It should also return which kind of statement the node of this tree represents.

For example, if the node contains a loop condition then it should return that this is a "loop type" of a node.

Or is there any way by which I can parse the code in C# and generate a tree of the type I want?

Answer 1

Specifically for Transact-SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) you can use the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.Parser namespace available in Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.dll, an assembly included with SQL Server and which can be freely distributed.

Here's an example method for parsing T-SQL as a string into a sequence of tokens:

IEnumerable<TokenInfo> ParseSql(string sql) {     ParseOptions parseOptions = new ParseOptions();     Scanner scanner = new Scanner(parseOptions);      int state = 0,         start,         end,         lastTokenEnd = -1,         token;      bool isPairMatch, isExecAutoParamHelp;      List<TokenInfo> tokens = new List<TokenInfo>();      scanner.SetSource(sql, 0);      while ((token = scanner.GetNext(ref state, out start, out end, out isPairMatch, out isExecAutoParamHelp)) != (int)Tokens.EOF)     {         TokenInfo tokenInfo =             new TokenInfo()             {                 Start = start,                 End = end,                 IsPairMatch = isPairMatch,                 IsExecAutoParamHelp = isExecAutoParamHelp,                 Sql = sql.Substring(start, end - start + 1),                 Token = (Tokens)token,             };          tokens.Add(tokenInfo);          lastTokenEnd = end;     }      return tokens; } 

Note that the TokenInfo class is just a simple class with the above-referenced properties.

Tokens is this enumeration:

• Tokens Enumeration (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.Parser)

and includes constants like TOKEN_BEGIN, TOKEN_COMMIT, TOKEN_EXISTS, etc.

Answer 2

Scott Hanselman recently featured the Irony project which includes a sample SQL parser.