I opened a feature request for SQL Developer. Posting here for
comment/debate and the solutions you are using. Once I figure out how to
actually link to the feature request and you can vote if you like.
One of the reasons I submitted is a query I am writing for
https://gitlab.com/post.ethan/arcsql which I would like to run in SQL
Developer with F9 not F5 (script) and render the grid with certain lines in
certain colors easily. I will be pushing out some cool updates to ArcSQL
later today.
Thanks,
Ethan
@poststop
This is "nice to have" feature. I would like the ability to define colors
(and perhaps other attributes) for certain lines and columns in SQL
Developer using the returned data itself. A very rudimentary implementation
would be a special column which contains #XXXXXX color hash. As long as I
tell SQL Developer that column "foo" is a column containing certain
instructions the line would be rendered using the color defined in the
column.
My use case is a result set that contains three rows for each entity I am
interested in. I need to look at certain lines across entities. Returning
log file type data would also be a use case. It would make it very easy to
spot the lines we are interested in within the greater context of the
result set.
Thanks for considering. I know there are ways to do this with HTML but that
in my opinion is too much work and ugly. I want to see SQL Developer become
the only tool I need and I want to be able to share solutions easily with
others that are pure SQL, work even if the color capability is not present,
and have enhanced power if run within SQL Developer. Maybe we can call it
"Smart SQL".
