A linter and auto-formatter for SQLFluff, a popular linting tool for SQL and dbt.

You can run Format Document to fix the linting violations. You cannot run Format Selection. Please note that not all linting violations are automatically fixable.

The extension expects sqlfluff to be installed and already added to the path. If it is installed but cannot be found, add the path to your preferences as seen below. Find the path by typing which sqlfluff into your terminal.

Edit your VS Code settings.json file manually or through the user interface.

If you want to manually update the settings.json file, open the VS Code command palette and type in settings.json. Select Preferences: Open Settings. Then, you can add any of the following configuration options to settings.json.

  "sqlfluff.config": "",
  "sqlfluff.dialect": "mysql",
  "sqlfluff.excludeRules": ["L009"],
  "sqlfluff.executablePath": "sqlfluff",
  "sqlfluff.ignoreLocalConfig": false,
  "sqlfluff.format.enabled": true,
  "sqlfluff.ignoreParsing": false,
  "sqlfluff.linter.run": "onType",
  "sqlfluff.rules": [],

By default you will be able use SQLFluff fix your file by formatting. Same as calling sqlfluff fix --force <path>

• dorzey
• VSCode's Extensions Samples
• VSCode's Testing Documentation

The MIT License (MIT). Please see the license file for more information.