Comments on: ★ Format your SQL the easy way

By: Sashwat Gupta

Sashwat Gupta — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:34:16 +0000

Useful links..

By: Kristal L. Rosebrook

Kristal L. Rosebrook — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:37:57 +0000

Interesting posts

K Rosebrook

By: wicherqm

wicherqm — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:01:42 +0000

Hey, from some time there is new formatting project on the web . You can find it on
(beta). The goals are make multi platform sql formatter with editable database of "keywords".

By: GuidoMarcel

GuidoMarcel — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:14:47 +0000

Hi Eddie, finally i put into SQLinForm an option to remove linebreaks before formatting as you suggested. Thanks for this suggestion GuidoMarcel

By: Weston Clark

Weston Clark — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:13:56 +0000

Has anyone posted some open source Java to format SQL statements? I am building a tool that supports our commercial product, and I am extracting queries from the database and would like to format them. I’ve written something rudimentary, but I’d like to avoid the trouble of writing a good one.

By: DBA

DBA — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:14:34 +0000

To: Eddie Awad

I used SQL Review from http://www.dbainfopower.com and it it formats broken words properly (I formatted output from v$sqltext )

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:38:10 +0000

Hi Guido,

You've done a great job with SQLinform. Thank you.

I have just tried formatting the SQL text mentioned in the post above. It does indeed remove the hard line breaks and format the SQL beautifully, but it looks like the line breaks are being replaced with blanks. For example:

mi
n(cols)

becomes

mi n(cols)

which of course is not valid SQL.

By the way, I'm currently using Win XP Pro.

Thanks again for this helpful utility.

By: guidomarcel

guidomarcel — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:12:50 +0000

Hi Eddie, thank you very much for this nice review of the sqlinform site.

Normally, the hard-coded linebreaks should be removed automatically. Which operating system are you using?

Regards GuidoMarcel

By: IONCANNON » SQL Beautifier

IONCANNON » SQL Beautifier — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:34:23 +0000

[...] I pulled a large amount of SQL out of some existing code and wanted to have it formated nicely for me. I figured there had to be some type of pretty printer for SQL available outside of applications like TOAD. I have access to TOAD but it would have required a reboot so I figured I would ask google what to do. There seem to be a number of different formaters out there. I found a couple people talking about current options a list here and here. The following list is a summary of the options I found: [...]

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:23:08 +0000

Allen,

for example, in the following:

select i.obj#,i.ts#,i.file#,i.block#,i.intcols,i.t ype#,i.flags,i.property,i.pctfree$,i.initrans,i.ma

I put my cursor at the beginning of the second line (just before the "y") and hit the backspace on my keyboard. I did this for every line until the whole query is on one line before I applied the formatting. That's what I meant by "remove the hard line breaks".