Am I the only one irked by the concept of beautiful SQL? SQL is beautiful by itself. Pick a style (indents,caps,whatever) that fits the project at hand. I have found it useful to write the more mundane parts of a project like a regular paragraph with minimal whitespace, and do more whitespace in areas that are more complex or more likely need attention later. Depending too much on a standard style (ironically) lends itself to some pretty ugly code, eg. tangling too many joins and subqueries that would be far better handled by separate statements.