Someone asked in our forums how to format their code the way they want it.
Specifically, they have code like so:
SELECT t1.col1 , t1.col2 , t1.col3 , t1.col4 , t1.col5 , t1.otp , t2.fid , t2.pid FROM table_1 t1 , table_2 t2 , table_3 t3 WHERE t1.rid = in_rid AND t1.col5 = t2.lid AND t1.col1 = t3.loid AND t1.atp NOT LIKE 'ABC%' AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT t4.* FROM table_4 t4, table_5 t5 WHERE t4.tid = t5.tid AND t5.active = 'Y' AND t4.flag = CC_FLAG AND t4.anw IS NULL ) ORDER BY t1.col3;
They don’t want this:
Hard to read?
The user doesn’t want the first predicate on the same line as the ‘WHERE’ keyword, and doesn’t want the additional predicate clauses to be on the same vertical position as the WHERE keyword as well.
Thankfully there are 2 Formatter preferences that make this easy to fix.
So the AFTER FORMAT looks like this:
SELECT t1.col1 , t1.col2 , t1.col3 , t1.col4 , t1.col5 , t1.otp , t2.fid , t2.pid FROM table_1 t1 , table_2 t2 , table_3 t3 WHERE t1.rid = in_rid AND t1.col5 = t2.lid AND t1.col1 = t3.loid AND t1.atp NOT LIKE 'ABC%' AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT t4.* FROM table_4 t4, table_5 t5 WHERE t4.tid = t5.tid AND t5.active = 'Y' AND t4.flag = CC_FLAG AND t4.anw IS NULL ) ORDER BY t1.col3;
The Preferences
Neither of these are on by default.
Not sure if you’re playing around with the ‘right’ preference? The code preview to the right updates AS you tweak the preference. That means you don’t have to guess.