>>I think one should keep an open mind. For example, in a recent message to me Fabio Lunardon used the following:

SELECT cFromIP ;
>>	,	cPortProt ;
>>	,	cToPDom ;
>>	,	cToFDom ;
>>	,	COUNT(*) counts ;
>>INTO CURSOR GpTest1 ;
>>		FROM Logs1;
>>		GROUP BY 1,2,3,4

I don't know if Fabio purposely wanted tabs expanded out to 8 characters but that's not what's interesting here. I'd never before considered putting the comma for a list extension at the START of a new line, but it's thematic in the same way as:
>
>Old School SQL DBA is what I see there.
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>As your building line by line, or removing, you never get buned in any part of your statement because the connections needed are on the same line.
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>Much like creating dynamic SQL
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>SQLstring = SQLstring + iif(colCount>1,', ','') + ColName

Agreed. I do the same thing, for the same reasons in much of my code. When I first saw Fabio's response my initial reaction was that it was really dumb. Then, after I considered it for a while, I saw why he did that, and that it's just an extension of something I've been doing all along. Just because something looks "funny" or "different" doesn't necessarily mean it's worse.