How a better SQL validator could look. Most SQL validators do one thing: hand your query to a parser, stop at the first syntax error, and throw a generic message back at you, usually detached from the code and without a minimal fix. For real-world work, that’s not enough. When you’re debugging a gnarly migration, reviewing a teammate’s query, or trying to teach a junior dev why the parser choked, you need more than “syntax error at or near …”. You need precise locations, explanations you can act...