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From: hawkwind@kentvax.kent.edu (Len Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Comments in SQL scripts -- is there standard
Keywords: SQL UNIFY
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.023801.9596@math-cs.kent.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 90 02:38:01 GMT
References: <216@cti1.UUCP>
Organization: Kent State University
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In article <216@cti1.UUCP> kmeek@cti1.UUCP (Kevin Meek) writes:
>Is there anything in the SQL standards about how comments can
>be inserted into an SQL script?  And if so at what level of SQL
>compliance is this instituted. 
>
>If there is no standard does anyone using UNIFY 2000 know if/how
>you can insert comments into a Unify SQL script.
>
>I have tried C style and Shell style comments but neither seem to work.
>
Unify 2000 uses double dashes in clumns 1 and 2.
for example:
-- this script does
-- absolutely nothing usefull
--
-- 
select * from table ;     

I do beleive its in a manual somewhere.

I think unify should standardize their comments or provide all comment
methods in any source file (including data integrity subsystem sources)

Len Jaffe

>Many Thanks 
>
>Kevin Meek
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