ETStart and ETEnd tags

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With respect to functions and stored procedures, it can be necessary to have statements executed before and after creation of the procedure or function. This can be useful for example, if you need to create or drop temporary tables used by the function or procedure. Two tag pairs, ETStart and ETEnd, let you embed statements in the first comment block of a stored procedure or function. The following shows the expected syntax:

create procedure dbo.procname(@a numeric) as

/*

<ETStart>SQL Statement</ETStart>

<ETEnd>SQL Statement</ETEnd>

*/

begin

...