# SQL Formatter [](https://npmjs.com/package/sql-formatter)   [](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=inferrinizzard.prettier-sql-vscode)
**SQL Formatter** is a JavaScript library for pretty-printing SQL queries.
It started as a port of a [PHP Library][], but has since considerably diverged.
It supports various SQL dialects:
GCP BigQuery, IBM DB2, Apache Hive, MariaDB, MySQL, Couchbase N1QL, Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Spark, SQL Server Transact-SQL.
See [language option docs](docs/language.md) for more details.
It does not support:
- Stored procedures.
- Changing of the delimiter type to something else than `;`.
→ [Try the demo.](https://zeroturnaround.github.io/sql-formatter)
## Install
Get the latest version from NPM:
```sh
npm install sql-formatter
```
Also available with yarn:
```sh
yarn add sql-formatter
```
## Usage
### Usage as library
```js
import { format } from 'sql-formatter';
console.log(format('SELECT * FROM tbl'));
```
This will output:
```sql
SELECT
*
FROM
tbl
```
You can also pass in configuration options:
```js
format('SELECT * FROM tbl', {
language: 'spark',
tabWidth: 2,
keywordCase: 'upper',
linesBetweenQueries: 2,
});
```
### Placeholders replacement
In addition to formatting, this library can also perform placeholder replacement in prepared SQL statements:
```js
format('SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE foo = ?', {
params: ["'bar'"],
});
```
Results in:
```sql
SELECT
*
FROM
tbl
WHERE
foo = 'bar'
```
For more details see [docs of params option.](docs/params.md)
### Usage from command line
The CLI tool will be installed under `sql-formatter`
and may be invoked via `npx sql-formatter`:
```sh
sql-formatter -h
```
```
usage: sqlfmt.js [-h] [-o OUTPUT] \
[-l {bigquery,db2,hive,mariadb,mysql,n1ql,plsql,postgresql,redshift,spark,sql,tsql}] [-c CONFIG] [--version] [FILE]
SQL Formatter
positional arguments:
FILE Input SQL file (defaults to stdin)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o, --output OUTPUT
File to write SQL output (defaults to stdout)
-l, --language {bigquery,db2,hive,mariadb,mysql,n1ql,plsql,postgresql,redshift,spark,sql,tsql}
SQL dialect (defaults to standard sql)
-c, --config CONFIG
Path to config json file (will use default configs if unspecified)
--version show program's version number and exit
```
By default, the tool takes queries from stdin and processes them to stdout but
one can also name an input file name or use the `--output` option.
```sh
echo 'select * from tbl where id = 3' | sql-formatter
```
```sql
select
*
from
tbl
where
id = 3
```
The tool also accepts a JSON config file with the `--config` option that takes this form:
```ts
{
"language": "spark",
"tabWidth": 2,
"keywordCase": "upper",
"linesBetweenQueries": 2,
}
```
All fields are optional and all fields that are not specified will be filled with their default values.
### Configuration options
- [**`language`**](docs/language.md) the SQL dialect to use.
- [**`tabWidth`**](docs/tabWidth.md) amount of indentation to use.
- [**`useTabs`**](docs/useTabs.md) to use tabs for indentation.
- [**`keywordCase`**](docs/keywordCase.md) uppercases or lowercases keywords.
- [**`indentStyle`**](docs/indentStyle.md) defines overall indentation style.
- [**`multilineLists`**](docs/multilineLists.md) determines when to break lists of items to multiple lines.
- [**`logicalOperatorNewline`**](docs/logicalOperatorNewline.md) newline before or after boolean operator (AND, OR, XOR).
- [**`aliasAs`**](docs/aliasAs.md) enforces or forbids use of AS keyword for aliases.
- [**`tabulateAlias`**](docs/tabulateAlias.md) aligns column aliases vertically.
- [**`commaPosition`**](docs/commaPosition.md) where to place the comma in column lists.
- [**`newlineBeforeOpenParen`**](docs/newlineBeforeOpenParen.md) placement of opening parenthesis.
- [**`newlineBeforeCloseParen`**](docs/newlineBeforeCloseParen.md) placement of closing parenthesis.
- [**`expressionWidth`**](docs/expressionWidth.md) maximum number of characters in parenthesized expressions to be kept on single line.
- [**`linesBetweenQueries`**](docs/linesBetweenQueries.md) how many newlines to insert between queries.
- [**`denseOperators`**](docs/denseOperators.md) packs operators densely without spaces.
- [**`newlineBeforeSemicolon`**](docs/newlineBeforeSemicolon.md) places semicolon on separate line.
- [**`params`**](docs/params.md) collection of values for placeholder replacement.
### Usage without NPM
If you don't use a module bundler, clone the repository, run `npm install` and grab a file from `/dist` directory to use inside a `