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December 13, 2005 Database, Oracle 3 Comments

Eddie Awad has a nice blog about three apps to format your SQL code. Especially the online tools, SQLinForm en the Online SQL Formatter, are very nice. Both offer some options to select the SQL dialect and the output format (e.g. upper/lowercase) and language (SQL, VB, Java etc). The former, being a java applet, is more feature-rich than the latter. Example:

select ename from (select ename from emp order by sal desc) where rownum < 4

becomes

SELECT ename
FROM
    ( SELECT ename
    FROM emp
    ORDER BY sal desc
    )
WHERE rownum < 4

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Aino Andriessen

Aino Andriessen is principal consultant and expertise lead 'Continuous Delivery'. His focus is on Oracle Fusion Middleware ADF and SOA development, Continuous Delivery, architecture, improving the software development proces and quality management. He is a frequent presenter at Oracle Open World, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, UKOUG Technology Conference and OUGN Vårseminar. He writes articles and publishes at the AMIS technology blog (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/).

3 Comments

  1. colour-coded sql testing July 19, 2006

    SELECT   Last_Name,
             Salary,
             Department_Id
    FROM     Employees
    WHERE    Salary &lt  ANY (SELECT   Salary
                            FROM     Employees
                            WHERE    Job_Id = ‘it_prog’
                            ORDER BY 2)
             AND Job_Id &lt&gt ‘it_prog’
    ORDER BY 1

  2. eduardo ivan pichler December 28, 2005

    thanksssss
    I was looking for this tools

  3. Scott Mitchell December 14, 2005

    Cool, I’ve been missing the SQL formatter in SQL*Navigator ever since I changed jobs. The option to download Online SQL Formatter and integrate it into our build is very tempting… Thanks for the pointers!