diff --git a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParser.java b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParser.java
index 2f9f2cf25..c0f787d7e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParser.java
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ public class DdlParser {
         return;
       }
 
+      if (sb.length() == 0 && (line.isEmpty() || line.startsWith("--"))) {
+        // ignore leading empty lines and sql comments
+        return;
+      }
+
       if (inDbProcedure) {
         sb.append(line).append(" ");
         return;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParserTest.java b/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParserTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e2115d1af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/DdlParserTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package com.avaje.ebean.dbmigration;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+
+public class DdlParserTest {
+
+  DdlParser parser = new DdlParser();
+
+  @Test
+  public void parse_ignoresEmptyLines() throws Exception {
+
+    List<String> stmts = parser.parse(new StringReader("\n\none;\n\ntwo;\n\n"));
+
+    assertThat(stmts).hasSize(2);
+    assertThat(stmts).contains("one;","two;");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void parse_ignoresComments_whenFirst() throws Exception {
+
+    List<String> stmts = parser.parse(new StringReader("-- comment\ntwo;"));
+
+    assertThat(stmts).hasSize(1);
+    assertThat(stmts).contains("two;");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void parse_ignoresEmptyLines_whenFirst() throws Exception {
+
+    List<String> stmts = parser.parse(new StringReader("\n\n-- comment\ntwo;\n\n"));
+    assertThat(stmts).hasSize(1);
+    assertThat(stmts).contains("two;");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void parse_inlineEmptyLines_replacedWithSpace() throws Exception {
+
+    List<String> stmts = parser.parse(new StringReader("\n\n-- comment\none\ntwo;\n\n"));
+    assertThat(stmts).hasSize(1);
+    assertThat(stmts).contains("one two;");
+  }
+
+
+  @Test
+  public void parse_ignoresComments() throws Exception {
+
+    List<String> stmts = parser.parse(new StringReader("one;\n-- comment\ntwo;"));
+
+    assertThat(stmts).hasSize(2);
+    assertThat(stmts).contains("one;","two;");
+  }
+}
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