title: SSMS removing pre-BEGIN comments from my stored procedures
body: <p>I'm running SSMS 12.0.2000.8</p>
  
  <p>If I use the SSMS query editor to create a stored procedure (such as the one below) the comments before <code>BEGIN</code> are removed when I execute/save it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE PROCEDURE myproc
  /* Say goodbye to this comment */
      @var1 int -- this comment will disappear too
  AS
  BEGIN
     /* This comment is safe */
     select 'hello' -- this too shall endure
  END
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>A colleague is running the same version of SSMS and has no such problems. If I execute one of his scripts using <code>sqlcmd.exe</code> the comments get stripped then too. I presume there must be a global setting that I need to change but I have no idea where it might be.</p>