On 10/07/2012 07:28 AM, Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: > Hi Jay, > > On 6 October 2012 14:55, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This actually standard practice for writing queries. Another common >> practice is to capitalize SQL key words, which you appear to also do. > I was aware that formatting a query was good practice - not so sure that it > is standard practice. If it is, then the standard, in my experience, seems > to have lots of variations! I've seen some queries that were pretty hard > to read. Because the compiler doesn't care about formatting, it seems that > many people come up with their own "standard" (or have it enforced by their > employer). I tend to follow the formatting practices I see in most texts.
SELECT columns FROM tables WHERE conditions SELECT .... This seems to be reasonably readable in many situations. What I have seen to difficult to follow is a very complex WHERE clause. > > Be that as it may, the main point I was making in my post was that with the > SQL Button off, any formatting is stripped out. The query is apparently > handled by the Query Wizard which doesn't seem to know anything about a > formatting standard. It would be good if this could be added to the wizard > some time. I think code to do that would be quite tricky to write, which > may explain why it hasn't been done to date. > > Thanks for your comment. > > Noel > -- > Noel Lodge > lodg...@gmail.com > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted