Ways to validate T-SQL queries?

Question

I have access to an Access database and within that database are fields filled with TSQL queries. These queries are processed by T-SQL on a server. So when I write these SQL

Answer 1

The Data Dude (Gert Drapers) describes how to use the built-in SQL Server T-SQL parser in your application here:

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If you want to only check the validity of the SQL statements that you have - this might be a nice way to go, and it doesn't require SQL Server per se to be installed where you run your unit tests.

It's a .NET based approach, and it cannot - of course - validate object names in your database if you're not using a live database - but it can catch syntactical errors in your T-SQL statements.