Hugo Kornelis (4/21/2010)
I never understand that habit. The semicolon is a statement terminator, not a statement starter, so the logical place for it is at the end of a statement, not before the next one.
This is one of those (perhaps irrational) things that bothers me too - it makes my brain jolt every time I see that ;WITH construction used. On the other hand, I dislike column lists prefixed with a comma (though I do see why people do that) as well, so maybe it is just me.
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