[stevepike]

I think it's great when doing adhoc analysis that only you are ever going to look at, though maybe I just need a better IDE. Another neat / silly trick is to add a truthy condition at the beginning of a where:

   select * 
   from foo
   where 1=1 
     AND bar = 1
     AND baz = 2

That way you can comment out any of your conditions without breaking the syntax.