I’ve been using the node mssql package in node scripts, and it’s great but it doesn’t have a pretty-printer for recordsets; console.dir() will print something out but you get some nasty-looking JSON formatted output.

This function is just a reusable printer for recordsets returned from sql.Request().query() or sql.Request().batch().methods.

Pass in the recordset and a function which prints the line, eg;

printTable(recordset, console.log);

And you get something more famililar with a SQL Server Management Studio feel;

-- SELECT id, name from table
id   name
===========
6    p1
7    p2
8    p3

Here’s the function:

// pretty-print a table returned from mssql node package 
// https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql
var printTable = function(recordset, printLine) {

 var padEnd = function (str, paddingValue) {
   while(str.length < paddingValue) {
     str = str + " ";
   }
   return str;
 };

 var print = function(value) {
   return (value == undefined || value == null) ? "(null)" : value.toString(); 
 }

 var maxWidth = {};

 for(var c in recordset.columns) {
   maxWidth[c] = c.length;
 }

 var l = recordset.length;
 for(var r = 0; r < l; r++) {
   var row = recordset[r];
   for(var c in recordset.columns) {
     var col = recordset.columns[c];
     row[c] = print(row[c]);
     maxWidth[c] = Math.max(maxWidth[c], row[c].length);
   }
 }

 var head = "";
 for(var c in recordset.columns) {
   var head = head + padEnd(c, maxWidth[c]) + " ";
 }

 printLine(head);

 var sep = Array(head.length).join("=");
 
 printLine(sep);

 for(var r = 0; r < l; r++) {
   var row = recordset[r];
   var printedRow = "";
   for(var c in recordset.columns) {
     printedRow = printedRow + padEnd(row[c], maxWidth[c]) + " ";
   }
   printLine(printedRow);
 }
};