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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Comments in SQL scripts -- is there standard
Keywords: SQL UNIFY
Message-ID: <450@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 00:06:58 GMT
References: <216@cti1.UUCP> <1990Jul11.023801.9596@math-cs.kent.edu>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <1990Jul11.023801.9596@math-cs.kent.edu> hawkwind@kentvax.kent.edu (Len Jaffe) writes:
|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?
|Unify 2000 uses double dashes in clumns 1 and 2.
|for example:
|-- this script does
|-- absolutely nothing usefull

I don't have my documents here, but I believe that the standard says
that a comment can occur anywhere, is indicated by a --, and goes to
the end of the line (modulo quoting and such).  Of course standard
SQL is something of an oxymoron yet, so your mileage may vary.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP