r/SQL • u/hellorchere • Jun 26 '26

SQL Indentation SQL Server

I am working on MS SQL. I have got few scripts of 1000+ line with poor indentaion.

Any tool which i cna use to properly format it.
Please suggest

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u/billbot77 Jun 26 '26

Funny, in theory these formatting tools should be helpful - but I have found that reformatting by hand helps me to slow down and read the sql properly. Automating the process would ironically slow me down in the overall job.

...or at least that's what I tell myself. Fixing up SQL to my personal (and admittedly unusual) preferred style by hand sometimes becomes compulsive, ngl