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44 <title>SQL Syntax</title>
4747 special character is adjacent to some other token type).
4848 </para>
4949
50- <para>
51- Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
52- input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
53- whitespace.
54- </para>
55-
5650 <para>
5751 For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input:
5852<programlisting>
@@ -65,6 +59,12 @@ INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there');
6559 commands can usefully be split across lines).
6660 </para>
6761
62+ <para>
63+ Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
64+ input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
65+ whitespace.
66+ </para>
67+
6868 <para>
6969 The SQL syntax is not very consistent regarding what tokens
7070 identify commands and which are operands or parameters. The first