Add Keywords to Query Analyzer's Syntax

[Bryan Bullard]

Does anyone know of a way to add *key words* to Query Analyzer's syntax
highlighting feature? I would think that there would be a text/xml file
that could be modified. This certainly can't be hard coded.

Thanks,
Bryan

[Allan Mitchell]

I think you are going to be disappointed then. I know of no way to add
keywords in the way you want.

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"Bryan Bullard" <re***@to.group.com> wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a way to add *key words* to Query Analyzer's syntax
highlighting feature? I would think that there would be a text/xml file
that could be modified. This certainly can't be hard coded.

Thanks,
Bryan

[Bryan Bullard]

"Allan Mitchell" <al***@no-spam.sqldts.com> wrote in message
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I know of no way to add keywords in the way you want.

Then do you know of another way?

[Erland Sommarskog]

Bryan Bullard (re***@to.group.com) writes:

Does anyone know of a way to add *key words* to Query Analyzer's syntax
highlighting feature? I would think that there would be a text/xml file
that could be modified. This certainly can't be hard coded.

There is no way to change the list of highlighted words. I would actually
guess that the list is hardcoded. After all, QA is to designed against a
certain version of SQL Server, so new keywords are not likely to appear
out of the blue. :-)
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[Rich Dillon]

Bryan,

It seems that the keywords are contained in the file
"../tools/binn/sqllex.dll" -- part of which appears in plain-text. For fun,
I tried the following command from a Linux prompt (after backing up the
file):

sed 's/CHECKALLOC/RICHDILLON/' sqllex.dll > new.dll

... and then renamed the new file. Sure enough, QA stopped highlighing
"CHECKALLOC" in blue. Sadly, it wouldn't highlight my name, though. :-(
There must be something important about the rest of the gobbledygook in that
file ;-)

Rich

"Bryan Bullard" <re***@to.group.com> wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a way to add *key words* to Query Analyzer's syntax
highlighting feature? I would think that there would be a text/xml file
that could be modified. This certainly can't be hard coded.

Thanks,
Bryan

[Lowell]

Bryan Bullard ([e-mail]) writes:[color=blue]
> Does anyone know of a way to add *key words* to Query Analyzer's syntax
> highlighting feature? I would think that there would be a text/xml file
> that could be modified. This certainly can't be hard coded.[/color]

There is no way to change the list of highlighted words. I would actually
guess that the list is hardcoded. After all, QA is to designed against a
certain version of SQL Server, so new keywords are not likely to appear
out of the blue. :-)


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [e-mail]

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It's actually hardcoded, and found this out the hardway when a dll was no longer registered.
the syntax highlighting functionality is done by a dll named sqllex.dll that is typically found in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn directory;
if you unregister the dll, you'll lose the syntax highlighting completely; re-registering it restores the functionality, which i discovered when uninstalling/reinstalling after a beta of SQL 2005.
because the list of keywords is in the DLL, and not in a file the DLL uses, there's no way to ADD keywords unless you could replace that dll with your own enhanced verison.
HTH.