



If you only want to activate the coding styles suggested by the Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL Coding Guidelines, install the settings as described here. In this blog post I explain how the formatter works and how the output can be tweaked using two simple SQL queries. And now I must admit that I’m really impressed with the formatting capabilities of the latest versions of SQL Developer. Version 19.2 brought us dynamic JavaScript actions within the parse-tree query language Arbori. In 2017 Oracle released version 4.2 with a new formatter and has been improving it ever since. But the capabilities of the formatter were disappointing. Back then version 4.0 was the latest and greatest.
