SnowConvert: SQL Server Conversion Settings¶

General Conversion Settings¶

General Conversion Settings page

  1. Transform use database: Flag to indicate whether or not the Transact SQL USE statement should be translated.

  2. Comment objects with missing dependencies: Flag to indicate if the user wants to comment on nodes that have missing dependencies.

  3. Disable EWI comments generation (errors, warnings and issues): Flag to indicate whether EWIs comments (Errors, Warnings, and Issues) will not be generated on the converted code. The default is false

  4. Set encoding of the input files: The encoding code page number is used for parsing the source files. We only accept encodings supported by .NET Core. Here are the ones supported at the moment:

    Code Page

    Name

    Display Name

    1200

    utf-16

    Unicode

    1201D

    unicodeFFFE

    Unicode (Big endian)

    12000

    utf-32

    Unicode (UTF-32)

    12001

    utf-32BE

    Unicode (UTF-32 Big endian)

    20127

    us-ascii

    US-ASCII

    28591

    iso-8859-1

    Western European (ISO)

    65000

    utf-7

    Unicode (UTF-7). Not available in .NET 5

    65001

    utf-8

    Unicode (UTF-8). Default encoding

Note

To review the Settings that apply to all supported languages, go to the following article.

DB Objects Names Settings¶

DB Objects Names Settings page

  1. Schema: The string value specifies the custom schema name to apply. If not specified, the original database name will be used. Example: DB1.myCustomSchema.Table1.

  2. Database: The string value specifies the custom database name to apply. Example: MyCustomDB.PUBLIC.Table1.

  3. Default: None of the above settings will be used in the objects names.

Prepare Code Settings¶

Prepare Code Settings page

  1. Prepare my code: Flag to indicate whether or not to preprocess or arrange the source code before its transformation. By default, it’s set to FALSE.

    • Pretty print: Applies indentation to the original code and get it well organized.

    • Maintain the input folder structure: Generates extra reports after the arrangement.

    • Multiple: Applies arrangement to multiple databases represented as multiple folders, and keeps their original structure.

Conversion Rate Settings¶

Conversion Rate Settings page

On this page, you can choose whether the successfully converted code percentage is calculated using lines of code or using the total number of characters. Characters conversion rate is the default option.

Stored Procedures Target Languages Settings¶

Stored Procedures Target Languages Settings page

On this page, you can choose whether stored procedures are migrated to JavaScript embedded in Snow SQL, or to Snowflake Scripting. The default option is Snowflake Scripting.

Reset Settings: The reset settings option appears on every page. If you’ve made changes, you can reset SnowConvert to its original default settings.

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