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Thus spake Ken J. Wright
> /* this is a comment */
> /* this is
> also
> a
> comment
> */
> 
> There is also an alternate form, but I can't remember it.

I would call those the alternate forms.  The canonical (SQL) way is

-- This is a comment

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