Introduction Query anatomy: Comments

7. Query anatomy: Comments

SQL as any programming language has the notion of comments – parts of the query that are not a query. If you open the Playground you’ll see the first default query:

-- This is your very first SQL query.
-- It lists all records from the users table: 

SELECT *
FROM users

As you can see the first 2 lines ☝ are just a comment about what the query is doing. Comments are very useful for documentation of hacks/techniques you used in a query so other people (or you in 3 months) can understand what’s going on.

Alternative comments syntax

-- style comments are very handy when you need to comment out just one line. If you want to write a bigger comment you can also use /* ... */ style:

/* This is your very first SQL query.
It lists all records from the users table. */

SELECT *
FROM users

How to use comments in the course

All queries you’ll write in the SQL Habit course will be available to you in History. So if you found a nice hack or learned something new – make sure to drop a comment in your query so you can retrieve it later. 🚀

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-- Type your query here, for example this one -- lists all records from users table: SELECT * FROM users
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