Keyword tab completion in sqsh(MsSQL console client in Linux)

I am one of those unlucky guys who have to maintain software that uses Microsoft SQL server. So i need to manipulate data on MsSQL server from time to time. Squirrel SQL GUI client can help me to do this. It's a great tool that can work with any JDBC compliant databases, but using GUI tool it's not always an option. I've done some googling and found a blog post that explains how to connect to Microsoft SQL server from linux via console using sqsh.
Here, i am going to outline a few steps for configuring sqsh:

1. Install sqsh and freetds from software repository or build it from source.
   NOTE: if building from source don't forget to enable readline support.
2. Configure database servers in freetds.conf file. freetds config file is located in /usr/local/etc/ or /etc/freetds folder.
   

   [server1]
           host = myserver
           port = 1433
           tds version = 8.0
   NOTE: You can find out path to the freetds.conf file by executing 
   tsql -C | grep freetds.conf command.

3. Configure default connection settings and style. The output of ~/.sqshrc should look like this:
   

   \set username=sa
   \set password=password
   \set database=DB_NAME
   \set style=pretty
   \set colsep="|"
   \set semicolon_hack=1
   \set keyword_completion=3

4. Connect to MsSQL server by specifying server name from freetds.conf and file with connection settings:
   

   sqsh -S server1 -r ~/.sqshrc
   NOTE: By default sqsh will always use ~/.sqshrc file.

Now you can manipulate data via console. It works well, but it's missing autocomplete of table and column names. Luckily sqsh has -k(keywords) parameter that let's you specify a file containing a list of keywords to be used for keyword tab completion(see manual). So we need to create a list of all table and column names presented in our database, store it in ~/.sqshrc_keywords data file and feed it to the sqsh on startup.
Next sql statement will create dictionary that will be used by tab completion.

SELECT SO.NAME FROM dbo.sysobjects SO 
WHERE SO.xtype = 'U' ORDER BY SO.[name];
go
SELECT SO.NAME + '.' + SC.NAME FROM dbo.sysobjects SO 
INNER JOIN dbo.syscolumns SC ON SO.id = SC.id
WHERE SO.xtype = 'U' ORDER BY SO.[name], SC.colid;
go

In this blog post you can find more information on how to get listing of all table and column names in MsSQL. Store this sql statement in ~/.sqshrc_keywords_sql file.

Then create a script that will generate SQL dictionary and establish a connection with the database:

sqsh -S server1 -m bcp -i ~/.sqshrc_keywords_sql -o ~/.sqshrc_keywords; sed -i.bak 's/|//' ~/.sqshrc_keywords; sqsh -S server1 -k ~/.sqshrc_keywords
Use this script to connect to MsSQL database. 
Now it's possible to autocomplete table and column names with tab:

References:
[1] Squirrel SQL client
[2] How to connect to Microsoft SQL server from Linux via command line
[3] SqSh
[4] FreeTDS
[5] Finding and listing all columns in a SQL Server database.

Eclipse juno constantly crashes on Linux

Since I started using Eclipse Juno, one extremely bad thing that was happening is that JVM was crashing several times a day. After each JVM crash there is no information about the error in eclipse log files, but JVM creates ~/hs_err_pid{PID}.log data file in the home directory. A hs_err log file is being created by the JVM when a fatal error occurs. It contains useful information to identify the cause of the problem. After analyzing these log files I concluded that all crashes related to overlay-scrollbar library. To disable overlay-scrollbar library for eclipse you can set LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR flag to false before launching the eclipse:

#!/bin/sh
LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 eclipse

It solved my problem. No more random eclipse crashes!

References:

[1] Eclipse

[2] Java hs_err error log files

[3] How to disable overlay scrollbars for a specific application?