2021

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Release 1.4.1 - December 22nd, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.2.16

Added

• Robustness on parser on SELECT statements.

• Code preprocess before converting the source code. Learn more

• Accuracy improvements on Assessment.

Fixed

• Cursor error when the result is only 1 row inside Stored Procedures

• Unhandled exception while converting OBJECT_ID

• Transformation for temporal (#) tables

• Unhandled exception while converting aliases with special characters or spaces.

• Unhandled exception while converting MERGE statements

Release 1.3.4 - December 7th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.43

Fixed

• Transformation for ISDATE function
• Transformation for PATINDEX function
• Transformation for string concatenation using +

Release 1.3.3 - November 22nd, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.24

Added

• Transformation for TRY_CONVERT and TRY_CAST function
• Transformation for STR function

Fixed

• Transformation for MONEY and SMALLMONEY

• Transformation for TABLE datatype in stored procedures

• Error on SELECT helper

• Transformation for addition assignment operators (+=, -=)

• Transformation for UPDATE statements using the table alias as target

• Comments lost during stored procedures transformation.

Release 1.3.1 - November 8th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.20

Added

• Count of User Defined Functions inside and outside queries

• Assessment section for User Defined Functions

• Transformation for @@ROWCOUNT function

Fixed

• Exception thrown while generating the HTML report

• Transformation for DECLARE statements with scalar default value

• Transformation for Common Table Expressions with Delete statement removing duplicates

Release 1.3.0 - October 25th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.11

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE PROCEDURES

• Parsing and basic Assessment for CREATE FUNCTION

• Object conversion rate for each identified object.

Fixed

• Exception that was causing a file not to be generated

• Transformation for variable declaration inside labels

• Transformation for ROW_NUMBER with partition

Release 1.2.1 - October 11th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.9

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE PROCEDURES

• Transformation for BULK INSERT statements
• Transformation for object_id inside IF statements
• Transformation for object_schema_name(@ObjectId, @DatabaseId)
• Transformation for object_name(@ObjectId, @DatabaseId)
• Transformation for modulo (%) operations in IF conditions

• Transformation for WAITFOR statements
• Transformation for empty statements inside Stored Procedures

• Transformation for ERROR_SEVERITY function

Fixed

• Transformation for double-dot qualifiers. Example:

Input

select * from db..table1

Output

select * from db.dbo.table1

• Comment objects with missing dependencies

• Inconsistent Total Issues value on UI vs Assessment report

• Custom database and schema options not working in the UI

• Disabling EWI comments generation in some cases

• Transformation for Procedures inside Unicode literals

Release 1.2.0 - September 28th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.8

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE PROCEDURES

• Translation for LABELS and GOTO
• Translation for RAISERROR
• Translation for error functions such as:

  • ERROR_LINE
  • ERROR_STATE
  • ERROR_PROCEDURE
  • ERROR_NUMBER
  • ERROR_MESSAGE
• Translation for CONTINUE statement.
• Translation for OBJECT_ID function with object_type argument specified.
• Translation for CAST function
• Warning for not supported REVERT statement.
• Translation for COMMON TABLE EXPRESSIONS using DELETE , UPDATE or INSERT
• New Logo for SnowConvert and minor UI update (some colors changed). New images are displayed in the Using SnowConvert section.

Fixed

• Translation for CROSS APPLY

• Translation for NLiteral expressions inside SELECT statements

• Translation for IDENTITY with default values

• Translation for UPDATE statements with JOIN clauses

• Translation for SELECT INTO used in COMMON TABLE EXPRESSION

Release 1.1.17 - September 14th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.3

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE VIEW and CREATE PROCEDURES

• Translation for CASE Expressions and built-In functions calls inside procedures.
• Translation for BREAK statement.

• Translation for supported ODBC SCALAR FUNCTIONS.
• Translation for SELECT @LOCAL_VARIABLE.
• Missing dependencies warning to views without their dependencies in the source code.

• Regions for PROCEDURES helpers.

• Warning for MASKED columns.

• Warning for DATABASE CONSOLE COMMANDS.

Fixed

• EXISTS translation in order to use the Snowflake built-in.

Release 1.1.16 - August 31st, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.1

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE TABLE , CREATE VIEW and CREATE PROCEDURES

• Assessment Accuracy Improvements:

  • Parsing errors count on output code and issues csv file.

  • Differentiation between warnings and errors count.

  • Warnings to some transformations properly added.

• Built-In functions translation:

  • CONVERT

  • COALESCE

  • ISNUMERIC

  • QUOTENAME

  • USER_NAME

  • SOUNDEX

  • DATEPART

  • DATENAME

  • NEWID

  • PATINDEX

  • FORMAT

  • PARSENAME

  • STUFF

  • DATABASE_PRINCIPAL_ID

• Translation for sysname , datetimeoffset , NChar , NText , sql_variant and timestamp data types

• Translation for computed columns

Fixed

• Translation for identity columns with negative values.

Release 1.1.15 - August 18th, 2021

Fixed

• The confirmation pop-up window for canceling the migration process is not displayed correctly.

Release 1.1.14 - August 16th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.1.0

Added

• Assessment Accuracy Improvements.

• Empty square brackets can now being parsed as column definition.

• CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY is now being properly translated.

• Top Level object report Generated.

• Default Parameters in Procedures now supported.

• Support Column names with reserved or special keywords.

• Assignments of the EXEC helper refactored to be more accurate to the source code.

• XML, Image, SMALLDATETIME and UNIQUEIDENTIFIER types now supported on translations.

Fixed

• Invalid keywords are no longer kept in the table DDL.

• Fixed StackOverflowException on MAC that caused the application to failed with error or log message.

• Fixed error where Hexadecimal values caused errors when contained inside procedures.

Release 1.1.12 - August 4th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.22

Added

• Better error handling for:

  • Unicode Literal failed transformations (Accurate EWI is now displayed)

• Parser robustness for:

  • GO command

  • OPEN GLOBAL

  • CLOSE GLOBAL

  • Files starting with invalid text (Not with SQL comments or SQL grammar elements)

• Translation for:

  • LIKE

  • NOT LIKE

Fixed

• Warnings added for SEQUENCE not being accurately counted.

• Inconsistencies shown in assessment information between identical runs of the tool for some workloads.

• Exception occurring during SELECT INTO transformation.

Release 1.1.11 - July 19th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.20

Added

• Improved Assessment Accuracy for:

  • Declare Statements in procedures.

  • If Statements.

  • Cursor Statements.

  • Merge Statements.

• Translate statement SELECT INTO TableName .

• Translate statements in Create Procedure:

  • Identity Column.

  • Column names with operators.

• Disclaimer for SQL Identified objects and SQL Files conversion rate.

Fixed

• EXECcall not being generated in the output.

• SnowConvert conversion loop for certain store procedures.

• Error migrating views and code being removed.

• Translation of negative values being translated to positive values.

• NOT EXISTS is being translated as EXISTS.

• Inconsistencies in Assessment Accuracy conversion rate.

• DefaultExpression should be counted as an error and affect the conversion rate.

• MSC-ISSUE renamed to MSC-ERROR in all the reports.

Release 1.1.10 - July 6th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.16

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE TABLE , CREATE VIEW and CREATE PROCEDURES

• Translate basic statements in CREATE PROCEDURES such as:

  • Translate BEGIN TRANSACTION statement

  • Translate COMMIT statement

  • Translate for ROLLBACK and ROLLBACK TRANSACTION statement

  • Translate THROW statement

  • Translate INSERT INTO EXEC

• Translate Temporal Tables

• Translate for EXECUTE Statement and N Literal

• Translate of CREATE PROCEDURE AS OWNER

• Translate built-in functions that have equivalence in Snowflake

• Translate TRUNCATE Statement

• Translate DROP TABLE statement

• Telemetry for assessment

Release 1.1.9 - June 22nd, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.13

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE TABLE , CREATE VIEW and CREATE PROCEDURES

• Translate basic statements in CREATE PROCEDURE such as:

  • Translate EXECUTE/EXEC statement

  • Translate embedded CREATE TABLE statement

• Translate basic predicates such as:

  • BETWEEN Predicate

  • EXISTS Predicate

  • IN Predicate

• Translate WITH Clauses in CREATE TABLE

• Translate Cursor DECLARE, OPEN, FETCH, CLOSE and DEALLOCATE

Release 1.1.5 - June 9th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.9

Added

• Robustness on the parser for CREATE TABLE , CREATE VIEW and CREATE PROCEDURES

Release 1.1.3 - May 25th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.5

Added

• Translated basic CREATE PROCEDURE

• Translate basic statements in CREATE PROCEDURE such as:

  • DECLARE @variable

  • SET @variable

  • TRY CATCH Statement

  • IF Statement

  • While Statement

  • RETURN Statement

  • SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE and MERGE.

• Translate basic expressions in CREATE PROCEDURE such as:

  • IS NULL / IS NOT NULL predicate

  • BINARY Operations ( +, -, *, / )

  • Comparisons ( >,<, <=, >= )

In order to try out the newly added translation features, you can use this example code and migrate this example with SQLServer SnowConvert.

CREATE PROCEDURE Procedure1(
    @model_year SMALLINT,
    @FirstName NVARCHAR(50),
    @Age INT,
    @Balance SMALLMONEY,
    @Description VARCHAR
) AS 
BEGIN
    DECLARE @cursor_db CURSOR;
    DECLARE @database_id INT, @database_name VARCHAR(255);
    DECLARE @product_list VARCHAR(MAX) = ' ';
    DECLARE @Variable1 AS VARCHAR(100), @Variable2 AS VARCHAR(100);
    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED;
    SET NOCOUNT ON
    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
    SET NOCOUNT OFF
    SET @product_list = '';
    SET @var1 += '';
    SET @var2 &= '';
    SET @var3 ^= '';
    SET @var4 |= '';
    SET @var5 /= '';
    SET @var6 %= '';
    SET @var7 *= '';
    SET @var8 -= '';
    SET @statement = 'SELECT * FROM TABLE1 WHERE COL1 = '+@param1+ ' AND COL2 = ' + @param2;

    BEGIN TRY
        IF @Age > 15
            return
        ELSE
            return 2;
        
        WHILE (@PATITO < 2)
        BEGIN
            SELECT * FROM TABLE1;
        END;

        INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES (1,2,3, @param1);
        DELETE dbo.Table2 FROM dbo.Table2 INNER JOIN dbo.Table1 ON (dbo.Table2.ColA = dbo.Table1.ColA) WHERE @ColA = 1;
        Update PruebaUpdate Set Col1 = 5;
    END TRY
    BEGIN CATCH
        return -1;
    END CATCH
END;
GO

Release 1.1.2 - May 14th, 2021

SnowConvert Core 3.0.3

Added

• Translate Tables

• Translate Views

• Assessment Report for Tables and Views

Known issue: you may get some error in the UI if you try to migrate Procedures and Functions