It is necessary to separate a CTE from the previous statement with a semi-colon (;
) character.
i.e. ;WITH CommonTableName (...) SELECT ... FROM CommonTableName ...
A CTE's scope is a single batch, and only downstream of its definition. A batch may contain multiple CTEs, and a CTE may reference another CTE defined earlier in the batch, but a CTE may not reference another CTE that is defined later in the batch.