With the release 1.2, sqsh supports a relatively powerful form of aliasing, resembling a mish-mash of csh style aliasing and sh style aliasing. Using this you can hide many of the longer or more irritating flags and options to various sqsh commands. If you are like me, then you spend a lot of time bouncing back and forth between your production and development servers in order to test various pieces of data or stored procedures. If this is the case, then here are a couple of handy aliases to keep in your .sqshrc. If you have been observant you will have noticed that if sqsh is compiled with GNU Readline support then you can supply your own list of key words to perform tab completion.
Most people like to keep around a set of frequently used database objects.