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title: "Rust: sqlx without macros"
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author: "James Pace"
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date: "2024/01/01"
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---
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[`sqlx`](https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx) is a Rust crate that allows
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for interacting with a SQL database.
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One of the more popular features of `sqlx` is that it does compile time checking
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of database queries (giving you some ORM-ish properties) while still allowing
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you to write straight SQL queries without the abstraction of an ORM though use
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of their [`query!`](https://docs.rs/sqlx/0.5.5/sqlx/macro.query.html).
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To make this work, `sqlx` requires:
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1. access to a database at compile time, OR
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2. config files to be generated from a running database everytime
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the database queries are modified.
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I don't particularly like either of those options, though I admittedly
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have not tried either of them long term.
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Requring a running database at compile time would seem to make compilation
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a lot slower.
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It also adds a unexpected step (run a container hosting a development database)
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before you can compile, which just feels wrong.
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The configuation files are better in the sense they don't require a running
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database at compile time, but it's an extra thing that has to be kept in sync
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with the code.
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Luckily, `sqlx` provides functions that can be used to do queries that aren't
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checked at compile time for people with the same concerns as I have.
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Because this isn't the recommended path though, the number of examples of
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using the functions online is a little lacking, which I'll make an effort
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to improve in this post.
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# Background
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# Example
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