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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T09:47:46+00:00 2026-05-13T09:47:46+00:00

I am looking at a note that someone wrote to me and it looks

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I am looking at a note that someone wrote to me and it looks something like this:

SELECT Something FROM Foobar WHERE blah='blah'  --- [pulls this too - SELECT Something FROM Foobar WHERE something='elsehappens']

I’m trying to figure out if the --- [ comment - QUERY] is just a comment or if it actually means something I haven’t seen before.

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    2026-05-13T09:47:47+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 9:47 am

    In this case it is just a comment… square brackets are often used to delimit real names for reserved words, or simply to delimit actual identifiers, but anything after a -- is always a comment.

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