Question

Lets assume I have this long insert statement

insert into table1 (id, name, phone, very_long_col_name, ...) 
            values (1, 'very long name indeed...', '555-555-5555', 1, ...)

As you can see above, it gets hard to tell values from their column since their length is uneven

I’m looking for something (e.g. command line util) to format the above (not just SQL format) to this:

insert into table1 (id, name                      , phone         , very_long_col_name, ...) 
            values (1 , 'very long name indeed...', '555-555-5555', 1                 , ...)

This way I can see which value goes with which column easily

It can be a plugin to notepad++, a java utility, a plugin to an SQL IDE, what ever does the trick…

Prepared statements, T-SQL parameters, Hibernate, JPA etc is not an option right now

Answer 1

Not suggesting a plugin, but I mostly see this kind of thing formatted this way:

insert into table1 
       (
         id, 
         name,
         phone, 
         very_long_col_name, 
         ...
       ) 
values 
       (
         1, 
         'very long name indeed...', 
         '555-555-5555', 
         1, 
         ...
       )

I find this more readable than scrolling through a very long line.