'CREATE VIEW' must be the first statement in a query batch

Question

Basically its what the title says. This is my code.

USE Assignment2;
GO

/* Player View (2 marks)
    Create a view which shows the following details of all          


        

Answer 1

This usually happens because being able to create a VIEW or any DBO, you require the entire script to be inside a TRANSACTION or you need to turn on SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.

ie

USE [yourdatabase]
GO

SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT, IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS OFF
SET ANSI_PADDING, ANSI_NULLS, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, ANSI_WARNINGS, CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL, ARITHABORT, XACT_ABORT ON
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
GO

BEGIN TRANSACTION
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

...
...

-- Write your Race View here
PRINT 'Creating Race View'
GO

CREATE VIEW raceView AS 
SELECT race.id, race.dateOfRace, race.raceType, raceType.name AS raceTypeName, race.course, course.name AS courseName, race.team, team.name AS teamName, race.observer, obs.firstName + ' ' + obs.surname AS observer_name, race.mvp, mvp.firstName + ' ' + mvp.surname AS mvp_name, race.pointsPenalised, race.finalScore + race.pointsPenalised AS unpenalised_score, race.finalScore
FROM race
INNER JOIN raceType
    ON race.raceType = raceType.id
    INNER JOIN course
        ON race.course = course.id
        INNER JOIN team
            ON race.team = team.id
            LEFT OUTER JOIN player AS mvp
                ON race.mvp = mvp.id
                LEFT OUTER JOIN player AS obs
                    ON race.observer = obs.id;
GO 

IF @@ERROR <> 0 BEGIN IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK SET NOEXEC ON END
GO

IF @@TRANCOUNT>0 COMMIT TRANSACTION
GO

SET NOEXEC OFF