Commands

$ sqlload --help
SQL data loading tooling. Pre-release, under development.

Usage: sqlload [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  debug         Validate the configuration and test every connection
  plan          Show what `apply` and `load` would do (exporter: each topic's table and objects)
  tables        Print `topic<TAB>table<TAB>stream<TAB>group` per topic (`-` when skipped), without Snowflake
  apply         Create or change tables (exporter: create missing tables, stages and pipes); never loads data
  load          Load the selected tables of a loader project
  run           Export until stopped
  status        Show per-partition lag and committed offsets
  logged-state  Inspect or change the run log of `state = "logged"` tables
  contract      Compare each table's declared columns with its live table, or adopt the live columns into the declarations; exits 1 when they differ
  copy          Copy one table once, between connections named in sqlload.toml or URIs (sqlload.toml is optional)
  help          Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Command	Page
plan, apply, load	plan, apply and load
copy	copy
contract diff, contract generate	contract
debug	debug
run, status, tables	Kafka exporter

sqlload logged-state is only for Python tables with state="logged"; see Logged state.

Global options

Every command takes these:

Option	Default	Meaning
-c, --config <FILE>	sqlload.toml, or SQLLOAD_CONFIG	The configuration file. Python source paths are relative to its folder.
--log-format <FORMAT>	text	text or json logs, on standard error.
--no-color	off	Print without colour. Also when NO_COLOR is set or the output isn’t a terminal.
-h, --help		Print help.
-V, --version		Print the version.

Exit codes

Code	Meaning
0	Everything selected succeeded, or agreed (contract diff, logged-state verify).
1	A table failed or was left out by a plan error, a contract difference or state disagreement was found, or the configuration is invalid.
2	The command line couldn’t be parsed.
130	load --follow got a second Ctrl-C or SIGTERM and stopped at once.