Comments on: Format your SQL

By: James

James — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:23:54 +0000

Here is another free online sql formatter
http://www.wangz.net/pp/sqlformat.htm

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:04:00 +0000

Unformatted SQL is just as hideous and unmaintainable as unformatted PHP, ColdFusion, Java, , etc. I have a whole set of SQL standards for my folks that are quite different from yours, but, as the saying goes, it’s not important _what_ the standard is, as long as one exists.

By: Jon Dowdle

Jon Dowdle — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:02:52 +0000

This EMS? http://sqlmanager.net/
I’ve never heard of them before today but the idea of “SQL Studio” for MySQL does sound tempting.

By: David Buhler

David Buhler — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:57:24 +0000

EMS has a nice SQL formatter.

By: Jon Dowdle

Jon Dowdle — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:15:20 +0000

Unformatted SQL gets even uglier with s sprinkled throughout. I do have to say that one downside to having each column etc on its own line is that your debug output (in CF at least) is 3 miles long.

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:03:12 +0000

I disagree on some of the specifics, but I agree 100% that people need to start formatting their SQL! I see the most horrible, unreadable snippets out there!