Formatting SQL statements for human eyes (also) [EN]

You know, often SQL statements are written by SQL gurus, or they just prepare views or tables that can be "read" by Notes programmers (I'm thinking to i5/DB2/Oracle/SQLserver guys) using just a simple statement like "SELECT * FROM mytable" .

Recently I had to develop very complex SQL statements to get data from i5 systems, using NSFDB2 and federation on R8: problem is SQL statements in Query Views (QV) cannot be just pasted as text in the SQL formula area, I had to remove all carriage returns, extra-spaces and so on... Everything should be on "one row"...
For that I used a good text editor called Notedap++, that was very handy.

Later on, I had to reverse the "just one line" SQL statement to a readable format, formatted in easy way, something like a beautifier for SQL statement.

After some googling I found a very good tool called SQLinForm !

Some features:

• it's free
• it's written in Java
• it can be used online in a web browser and also offline
• it process several SQL dialects
  
• it can output the newly formatted SQL statements to several programming languages
• it formats SQL keywords using colors
  
• other handy features...
  

In small words, it can save your time! Take a look to some screenshots.

Bye,
Cristian D'Aloisio