Column data output looses context

[nocentino]

cat dm_exec_connections | awk '{ print $1,$3,$7 }' | column -t
session_id connect_time endpoint_id
51 Jun TCP

When accessing the data in the file, awk functions properly. But not having the column data line up might be challenging for users. Standard stuff for Linux folks, not so much for SQL Server folks.

[aditya-shantanu]

I did consider this when writing the tool. To be able to align the content with the "right" whitespaces is like writing the logic of column (linux command) inside the tool - The tool would have to parse the entire content again and re-write the file.

IMHO we should use existing linux commands/tools that can do this very easily.

Maybe what we can do is add examples of popular commands that can be used to view the raw TSV or JSON output in more cohesive manner.