When I read the question, I can see the semi-colon doesn't belong there and it looks like an error in the question. Many of us come from visual basic, not c sharp. We can safely ignore semi-colons in visual basic. However, I see the point, learned something; I'm just not happy about it - seems more like a trick to me than anything else.

I hate that nasty green arrow. Sometimes I miss and hit that instead of execute. I never parse... that's for DBA's who are unsure of how to write queries (IMHO). I'm sure there are DBA's better than I who do parse. I do not parse.