diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
index 42865256ff..403a39cbf0 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import { executableStatementRangeAtCursor, executableStatementRangeCacheForDoc,
 import { currentStatementFrameRangeTo } from "@/lib/sql/currentStatementFrame";
 import { expandToSqlStatementWindow } from "@/lib/sql/insertValueHints";
 import { insertValueHintColumnNames } from "@/lib/sql/insertValueHintColumns";
-import { canFormatSqlForDatabaseType, formatSqlForEditing, compressSqlText, type SqlFormatDialect } from "@/lib/sql/sqlFormatter";
+import { canFormatSqlForDatabaseType, formatSqlForDisplay, formatSqlForEditing, compressSqlText, sqlFormatDialectForDbType, type SqlFormatDialect } from "@/lib/sql/sqlFormatter";
 import { detectAndFormatStructured } from "@/lib/sql/autoFormat";
 import { enabledSqlParameterSyntaxes, resolveSqlVariableSyntaxToggles } from "@/lib/sql/sqlVariableSyntax";
 import { blankLineDeletionChanges, replaceSelectedEditorText } from "@/lib/editor/queryEditorTextEdits";
@@ -2825,7 +2825,13 @@ async function resolveSqlHoverTooltip(currentView: EditorViewType, pos: number)
         const { ddl } = await loadObjectDdl(objectMetadataRequest);
         const rawDdl = ddlForHoverPreview(ddl);
         if (rawDdl && rawDdl.trim()) {
-          sqlContent = reformatHoverDdl(rawDdl, quoteQualifiedName(hoverQualifiedName));
+          // A view's display DDL wraps the raw (often single-line) view source
+          // in `CREATE ... VIEW ... AS`; the table-oriented reformatter cannot
+          // lay out a SELECT body, so views reuse the shared display formatter
+          // (the same one the sidebar/object-source viewers use). Tables keep
+          // the aligned column layout from reformatHoverDdl.
+          const isViewObject = objectMetadataRequest.objectType === "VIEW" || objectMetadataRequest.objectType === "MATERIALIZED_VIEW";
+          sqlContent = isViewObject ? await formatSqlForDisplay(rawDdl, props.formatDialect ?? sqlFormatDialectForDbType(props.databaseType), settingsStore.editorSettings.sqlFormatter) : reformatHoverDdl(rawDdl, quoteQualifiedName(hoverQualifiedName));
         }
       } catch (error) {
         console.warn(`[DBX] Failed to load table DDL for ${hoverDatabase}.${hoverSchema}.${table.name}:`, error);
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/sqlFormatter.spec.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/sqlFormatter.spec.ts
index d992682cf5..e3901bdd41 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/sqlFormatter.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/sqlFormatter.spec.ts
@@ -60,9 +60,63 @@ describe("sqlFormatter", () => {
     expect(sqlFormatDialectForDbType("duckdb")).toBe("duckdb");
   });
 
-  it("maps only Oracle to the PL/SQL formatter dialect", () => {
+  it("maps Oracle and OceanBase Oracle mode to the PL/SQL formatter dialect", () => {
     expect(sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oracle")).toBe("oracle");
-    expect(sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle")).toBe("generic");
+    // OceanBase Oracle mode speaks Oracle SQL — issue #7540: it must reuse the
+    // Oracle dialect so view DDL previews are formatted instead of one line.
+    expect(sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle")).toBe("oracle");
+  });
+
+  it("formats an OceanBase Oracle single-line view DDL into readable multi-line SQL (issue #7540)", async () => {
+    const singleLine = `CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW "APP"."ACTIVE_USERS" AS SELECT ID, NAME FROM USERS WHERE STATUS = 'ACTIVE'`;
+    const formatted = await formatSqlForDisplay(singleLine, sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle"));
+
+    expect(formatted).not.toBe(singleLine);
+    expect(formatted.split("\n").length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    expect(formatted).toContain("CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW");
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bSELECT\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bFROM\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bWHERE\b/);
+    // String literals and quoted identifiers must survive formatting untouched.
+    expect(formatted).toContain("'ACTIVE'");
+    expect(formatted).toContain('"ACTIVE_USERS"');
+  });
+
+  it("formats a bare OceanBase Oracle view source wrapped as CREATE VIEW (issue #7540)", async () => {
+    // Mirrors the backend build_view_ddl_sql output for a fallback ALL_VIEWS.TEXT
+    // body: `CREATE VIEW <name> AS <single-line SELECT>`.
+    const wrapped = `CREATE VIEW "APP"."ACTIVE_USERS" AS
+SELECT ID, NAME FROM USERS WHERE STATUS = 'ACTIVE';`;
+    const formatted = await formatSqlForDisplay(wrapped, sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle"));
+
+    expect(formatted.split("\n").length).toBeGreaterThan(2);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bSELECT\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bFROM\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bWHERE\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toContain("'ACTIVE'");
+  });
+
+  it("does not split string literals when formatting an OceanBase Oracle view (issue #7540)", async () => {
+    const singleLine = `CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW "APP"."V" AS SELECT 'SELECT X FROM Y' AS TXT FROM DUAL`;
+    const formatted = await formatSqlForDisplay(singleLine, sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle"));
+
+    expect(formatted).toContain("'SELECT X FROM Y'");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an already multi-line OceanBase Oracle view DDL semantically intact (issue #7540)", async () => {
+    const multiLine = `CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW "APP"."ACTIVE_USERS" AS
+SELECT
+  ID,
+  NAME
+FROM USERS
+WHERE STATUS = 'ACTIVE';`;
+    const formatted = await formatSqlForDisplay(multiLine, sqlFormatDialectForDbType("oceanbase-oracle"));
+
+    expect(formatted).toContain('"ACTIVE_USERS"');
+    expect(formatted).toContain("'ACTIVE'");
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bID\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bNAME\b/);
+    expect(formatted).toMatch(/\bWHERE\b/);
   });
 
   it("keeps issue #7138 Oracle hierarchy clauses intact", async () => {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/sqlFormatter.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/sqlFormatter.ts
index 82b88782bd..f66d4f2c21 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/sqlFormatter.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/sqlFormatter.ts
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ export function sqlFormatDialectForDbType(dbType: string | null | undefined): Sq
     case "sqlserver":
       return "sqlserver";
     case "oracle":
+    // OceanBase Oracle mode speaks Oracle SQL, so it reuses the PL/SQL grammar.
+    case "oceanbase-oracle":
       return "oracle";
     case "clickhouse":
       return "clickhouse";