Formatting SQL Query Inside an IPython/Jupyter Notebook

If you set the cell as Markdown one you can write the sql query as code specifying the language (e.g. mysql)

``` mysql
SELECT *
FROM table_a AS a
LIMIT 10; 
```

This produces:

It highlights the keywords. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to deal with indentation which seems to be the main issue you are trying to deal with but maybe this helps.

If you - like me - find yourself here because you want to highlight (and run) the %%sql magic, you're best of with the technique of this answer. Posting it here cause it took me quite some time before I found the correct keywords to my answer :)

require(['notebook/js/codecell'], function(codecell) {
  codecell.CodeCell.options_default.highlight_modes['magic_text/x-mssql'] = {'reg':[/^%%sql/]} ;
  Jupyter.notebook.events.one('kernel_ready.Kernel', function(){
  Jupyter.notebook.get_cells().map(function(cell){
      if (cell.cell_type == 'code'){ cell.auto_highlight(); } }) ;
  });
});

I found that this fixed the issue I was having.

``` sql

Produced styled code in edit mode but not when the cell was run.

``` mysql

Produced correct styling