Katoa Queries is a simple NuGet package for quickly loading SQL queries from embedded resources.

Why load queries from embedded resources? This allows you to avoid embedding all your sql as strings in your dotnet code. Also many IDEs also make it realtively easy to connect .sql files to databases which allows auto complete and the ability to test queries interactively.

Install package Katoa.Queries from Nuget

Create a folder called "Queries"

Add .sql files into the Queries directory

Change the properties of the SQL files so they will be compiled as an embedded resource.

Queries are loaded by just the name of the file(excluding the .sql extension).

For example, if you have a query with the path :-

./Queries/MyQuery.sql

You load it with the following :-

var sql = Query.For("MyQuery");

If subdirectories are used to organize queries under the query folder then they will be seperated by a dot.

For example if you make a query with the following path :-

./Queries/Product/All.sql

You can load it with the following :-

var sql = Query.For("Product.All");

To interactively test parametized queries in your IDE, all the parameters need to be declared as varibles. When loading the query these declarations are not needed, so Katoa Queries has a simple mechanisim to ignore everything before a "Magic" comment if present :-

-- QUERY

As an example, consider the following

DECLARE @Param INT = 10
-- QUERY
SELECT * from Table WHERE X > @Param

When loading this query only the SELECT statement will bee loaded.

In the the folder DapperDemo there is an exmple of using Katoa Queries to load sql for use with Dapper.