SQL Statement indentation good practice [closed]

Answer 1

That's how we would do it here:

select
        COLUMN1,
        COLUMN2,
        case    when    COLUMN5 = 'X'
                        and
                        COLUMN6 = 'Y'
                then    'one'
                when    COLUMN5 in (
                                'AAA',
                                'BBB'
                        )
                then    'two'
                else    'three'
        end as COLUMN7
from
        TABLE1
where
        COLUMN2 in (
                select top(1)
                        COLUMN4
                from
                        TABLE2
                        inner join
                        TABLE3
                                on
                                        TABLE2.COLUMN1 = TABLE3.COLUMN1
                                        and
                                        TABLE2.COLUMN2
                                                between
                                                        TABLE3.COLUMN2
                                                        and
                                                        TABLE3.COLUMN3
        )

Our idea is: keep sql keywords in lower case and put all changing (and therefore "more interesting") things like table or column names in upper case. The code might look a bit "blown up" here, but it increases readability if you have complex queries with longer names (incl. schema etc.) much longer than in this example. And: indent all objects according to their "level".