How can I programmatically check (parse) the validity of a TSQL statement?

Question

I\'m trying to make my integration tests more idempotent. One idea was to execute rollback after every test, the other idea was to some how programatically parse the text,

Answer 1

I think the command you are looking for is SET NOEXEC ON. If you set this for your connection, the queries will be parsed but will not be executed. Another option would be SET PARSEONLY ON, but I'm honestly not sure what the difference between the two really is.