amshank

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   by amshank 5y ago

   Most of the SQLFluff style was based around the Mozilla SQL style guide and the dbt labs style guide: https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style.html https://github.com/dbt-labs/corp&#x2
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   by amshank 5y ago

   It's pretty new functionality in sqlfluff, but it now supports user defined plugins for org-specific rules if you want to forbid something more obscure. Documentation is sketchy, but you can see the proof of concept here: https:/
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   by amshank 5y ago

   The reason that those people care about formatting is that it matters when the code is used to communicate with other people, not just with machines. Having a consistent style within the team, means the team can communicate more easily - ev
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   by amshank 5y ago

   You're totally right that there isn't any consistency in this space at the moment. It's part of the justification for tools like SQLFluff starting to align people on a common way of writing SQL. None of the incumbent players
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   by amshank 5y ago

   Auto-formatter is already built in for some simple violations: https://docs.sqlfluff.com/en/stable/cli.html#sqlfluff-fix