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| latest release version = 2.5.16.1
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| genre                  = [[SQL]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
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'''Sqsh''' (pronounced {{not a typo|''skwish''}}), short for SQSHell (pronounced s-q-shell), is a [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] substitute for '''isql''', the interactive [[SQL]] [[Client (computing)|client]] supplied with [[Sybase]]'s [[Adaptive Server Enterprise|Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)]] [[relational database management system]].  

isql and sqsh are, essentially, rudimentary command-line tools for issuing [[Transact-SQL]] commands to an ASE Server and receiving and displaying results.

Sqsh supports, among others, command history, aliases and piping output to or from external programs and sources.  It runs on various flavours of [[Unix]], including [[Linux]] as well as [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] through the [[Cygwin]] libraries.

==External links==
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/ Download site]
* [http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/sqsh.1.html Sqsh man page]
* articles:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20200519141211/http://www.sypron.nl/sqsh.html Tricks with sqsh]
** [http://fahdshariff.blogspot.be/search/label/sqsh Use sqsh, not isql]

[[Category:Database administration tools]]
[[Category:Free software programmed in C]]