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From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Comments in Unify 4.0/5.0 SQL
Message-ID: <483@sunny.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 20:18:15 GMT
References: <he43zl8@Unify.Com>
Reply-To: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Organization: UCDMC Clinical Engineering, Sacto., CA
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In article <he43zl8@Unify.Com> dbrus.dxs@unify.uucp (Dale R. Shaver) writes:
>In Unify 4.0 and 5.0, SQL does not support the ANSI standard of
>commenting with `--'.
...
>	sql> lines 0    This query selects everything
>	sql> lines 0    from the 'foo' table
>	sql> lines 24
>	sql> select * from foo/
...
>Dale Shaver, Unify Technical Support           Phone: (916) 922-1177, x 733
>dxs@unify.UUCP                                   Fax: (916) 920-5306
>{{ucdavis,csun,lll-crg}!csusac,pyramid,sequent}!unify!dxs
>"Please continue the petty bickering; I find it quite intriguing" 

As an alternative, at least in Unify 4.0, you can put anything
after an `end' statement:

	lines 0
	select * from table1 /
	end
	This obscure script selects ....

Tom.
-- 
Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering
Universiy of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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