Best Free SQL Formatter

Beautify SQL in your browser — keyword casing, clause line-breaks and indentation, with nothing uploaded.

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How it works

  1. Paste your SQL. Drop a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement into the box.
  2. Format. Hit Format to uppercase keywords, break the clauses onto new lines and indent.
  3. Copy the result. Copy the tidy query. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

About this tool

Turn a one-line SQL query into something you can actually read. Paste a statement and the formatter capitalises the keywords, puts each major clause — SELECT, FROM, WHERE, the JOINs, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, AND/OR and more — on its own line, and indents the contents of parentheses. String literals, quoted identifiers and comments are left untouched. Advanced options let you switch keywords to lowercase and pick a 2-space, 4-space or tab indent. It runs entirely in your browser.

What people use it for

  • Make a one-line query readable for a code review
  • Standardise keyword casing across a team SQL
  • Tidy a query before pasting it into a ticket or doc
  • Untangle a long WHERE / JOIN chain to debug it

Frequently asked questions

No. The formatting runs entirely in your browser, so the SQL you paste never leaves your machine.

Yes. Advanced options have a keyword-case setting; switch it to lowercase and SELECT, FROM, WHERE and the rest are emitted in lower case.

No. Only recognised SQL keywords are re-cased. Identifiers, string literals and quoted names are left exactly as you wrote them.

No. It is purely a text formatter — it never connects to a database or executes anything.

It formats standard SQL keywords and clauses, so it works well across MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server and similar.

Completely free, no account and no limits — a client-side tool with nothing to meter.

Yes. It runs in your browser, so SQL Formatter works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.

Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — SQL Formatter starts working the moment you give it your input.

Casual use is unlimited, under a generous fair-use cap that keeps it fast for everyone.

All modern browsers — Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. SQL Formatter needs nothing installed beyond the browser you already use.

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