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SQL style guide: formatting queries for review
A practical SQL style guide: one clause per line, indented joins, keyword case, comma placement and naming rules that make queries easy to review.
6 min read

SQL dialect differences that affect formatting
How MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and SQL Server differ in quoting, comments, operators and variables, and why the right dialect matters to a formatter.
6 min read

Minifying SQL: when it helps and when it hurts
What SQL minification removes, where a one-line query is useful (configs, shells, logs) and why it never makes a query run faster on the database.
5 min read