I read this thread in total amazement. It has become quite obvious that there are not only a variety of styles of code development but developers have become quite sensitive towards their coding style.

To add my 2 cents worth, someone who has been writing SQL code for a very long time I find that

formatting code is probably the most significant for code readability than anything else. As someone pointed out in an earlier post, formatted code is first.

Leading commas has nothing to do for readability but for ease of development. To me, I will typically use trailing commas but if the code has leading commas then I will use them. This, I see, is more of a preference than anything else.

CAPS for SQL reserved words... bahhh humbug! I have found that I can write SQL code much faster if I everything is in lower case.

so folks... SO FLAME ON!!!!

Kurt