SQL Dev Feature Request - Smart SQL (define row colors within result sets).

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
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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".

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