SQL Developer, Comma's before columns!

I’ve been using SQL Developer a lot lately for data analysis and I’ve been getting used to the auto formatting to easily create well readable code out of my garbled-“I’m in a hurry”-SQL-mess.
This works like a charm, except for the comma’s which kept showing up at the end of the column names after the auto formatting, a small annoyance which is easily solved with this trick.
This is the default auto-formatting which is used by SQL Developer:

SELECT t1.column1,
 t1.column2,
 t2.column3
FROM table1 t1
JOIN table2 t2
ON t1.value1 = t2.value2;

You can change this behaviour by accessing the following settings:
Tools -> Preferences -> Database -> SQL Formatting -> Oracle Formatting -> Press button “Edit”
In the Oracle Formatting window: Line-breaks -> Select “Before comma” and deselect “After comma”

 
After this trick, the default formatting will have this code as a result:

SELECT t1.column1
, t1.column2
, t2.column3
FROM table1 t1
JOIN table2 t2
ON t1.value1 = t2.value2;
 

Happy querying! 🙂

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