EA 2.1 - SQL autoformat does not capitalize some column names

Question

Hi,
If I put this bit of SQL into the worksheet, select it, and click the A->a formatting button to cycle through the options:
SeLecT Id, NaMe, MY_SpecIal_Column, yEAr fROm DuAl;
turns into
INITCAP - Select Id, Name, My_special_column, Year From Dual;
UPPER - SELECT ID, NAME, MY_SPECIAL_COLUMN, YEAR FROM DUAL;
LOWER - select id, name, my_special_column, year from dual;
UPPER_KW - SELECT ID, NAME, my_special_column, YEAR FROM dual;;
LOWER_KW_UPPER_ID - select id, name, MY_SPECIAL_COLUMN, year from DUAL;
You can see in the last two cases that ID, NAME, and YEAR are treated as keywords instead of column names.

Answer 1

Hi,
I think it is due to Oracle keywords which can be used as column names.
SQL Dev thinks the column given is a keyword instead of column name.
In my opinion, it works just fine.
In the first place, we should avoid using keywords as column name.
However, as in your case, when we need the column to be formatted as desire,
Perhaps the developer should give some handling over the keywords themselves.
SELECT <to be treated as column> FROM <to be treated> WHERE <to be treated>
UPDATE <to be treated> SET <to be treated> WHERE <to be treated>
CREATE TABLE / VIEW <to be treated>
Wow... that would be a long list of handling.
And it would turn out to be double time efforts on the case conversion though.
Regards,
Buntoro