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<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
special character is adjacent to some other token type).
</para>
- <para>
- Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
- input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
- whitespace.
- </para>
-
<para>
For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input:
<programlisting>
commands can usefully be split across lines).
</para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
+ input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
+ whitespace.
+ </para>
+
<para>
The SQL syntax is not very consistent regarding what tokens
identify commands and which are operands or parameters. The first