Remark: This article was written in 2005. Therefore the screenshots show an old eclipse version.
Well, i wanted to find out, how easy or how complicated it is to write an editor for a language and back then there was no SQL editor. So i started developing a tiny SQL editor for Eclipse just to find out how things are working. For my daily work as a BI/DWH consultant i had some full blown SQL tools ... So it was just for fun ;-)
I started with syntax highlighting ...
and then i added a very rudimentary form of syntax completion ;-) Well, it inserts just the word "SELECT" ;-)
and then i implemented a select query result viewer as seen in the following screenshot.
Note that i also added a database structure to the outline view which i implemented in my EMF - DWH tools project.
