diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 1f4f8e38..cfb574bd 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -620,20 +620,20 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sqlglot"
-version = "30.21.0"
+version = "30.22.0"
 description = "An easily customizable SQL parser and transpiler"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["main"]
 files = [
-    {file = "sqlglot-30.21.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:816d1a4815b7562b3976efcc0b561c928a743f976efd0fb8ad6db7a5b96c069e"},
-    {file = "sqlglot-30.21.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:6787ac202a3adc0e25434f1512370a655e51cb3de8c792544de5f6ff9c618d25"},
+    {file = "sqlglot-30.22.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:90aa461490fcd95d14ec3842a97506ae20f6d3e9313307ad31be793d479cca65"},
+    {file = "sqlglot-30.22.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ec4b83ca8236ea8867f574a382dc15ce35b071c977fecfcc66482d9a3f500661"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
-c = ["sqlglotc (==30.21.0) ; python_version >= \"3.10\""]
-dev = ["duckdb (>=0.6)", "mypy ; python_version < \"3.10\"", "pandas", "pandas-stubs", "pdoc", "pre-commit", "pyperf", "python-dateutil", "pytz", "ruff (==0.15.6)", "setuptools_scm", "sqlglot-mypy (>=2.3.0.post2) ; python_version >= \"3.10\"", "types-python-dateutil", "types-pytz", "typing_extensions"]
-rs = ["sqlglotc (==30.21.0) ; python_version >= \"3.10\"", "sqlglotrs (==0.13.0)"]
+c = ["sqlglotc (==30.22.0) ; python_version >= \"3.10\""]
+dev = ["duckdb (>=0.6)", "mypy (>=2.4.0) ; python_version >= \"3.10\"", "mypy ; python_version < \"3.10\"", "pandas", "pandas-stubs", "pdoc", "pre-commit", "pyperf", "python-dateutil", "pytz", "ruff (==0.15.6)", "setuptools_scm", "types-python-dateutil", "types-pytz", "typing_extensions"]
+rs = ["sqlglotc (==30.22.0) ; python_version >= \"3.10\"", "sqlglotrs (==0.13.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tomli"
diff --git a/sql_metadata/comments.py b/sql_metadata/comments.py
index a5fc915c..57c2b1cf 100644
--- a/sql_metadata/comments.py
+++ b/sql_metadata/comments.py
@@ -21,10 +21,23 @@
 import re
 from typing import Any
 
+from sqlglot.dialects.mysql import MySQL
 from sqlglot.errors import TokenError
 from sqlglot.tokens import Tokenizer
 
 
+class _MySQLCommentTokenizer(MySQL.Tokenizer):
+    """MySQL tokenizer that treats any ``--`` as a line comment.
+
+    sqlglot >=30.22 follows MySQL semantics where ``--`` only starts a
+    comment when followed by whitespace, so ``--foo`` would be tokenized
+    as two dashes and an identifier.  We use this tokenizer purely to
+    strip comments, and ``--foo`` is meant as a comment in practice.
+    """
+
+    DASH_COMMENT_REQUIRES_BOUNDARY = False
+
+
 def _choose_tokenizer(sql: str) -> Tokenizer:
     """Select the appropriate sqlglot tokenizer for *sql*.
 
@@ -39,13 +52,11 @@ def _choose_tokenizer(sql: str) -> Tokenizer:
     :rtype: sqlglot.tokens.Tokenizer
     """
     if "#" in sql and not _has_hash_variables(sql):
-        from sqlglot.dialects.mysql import MySQL
-
         # Pass dialect="mysql" so the cached TokenizerCore (sqlglot >=30.7.0
         # caches per-class) is built with MySQL identifier semantics — without
         # it the cache is primed from the default dialect and later mysql
         # parses misclassify e.g. ``0020_big_table`` as NUMBER + VAR.
-        return MySQL.Tokenizer(dialect="mysql")
+        return _MySQLCommentTokenizer(dialect="mysql")
     return Tokenizer()
 
 
@@ -180,12 +191,10 @@ def strip_comments_for_parsing(sql: str) -> str:
     if upper.startswith("CREATE FUNCTION") or _has_hash_variables(sql):
         tokenizer = Tokenizer()
     else:
-        from sqlglot.dialects.mysql import MySQL
-
         # See _choose_tokenizer — the explicit dialect prevents the
         # sqlglot >=30.7.0 TokenizerCore cache from being primed with
         # default-dialect semantics.
-        tokenizer = MySQL.Tokenizer(dialect="mysql")
+        tokenizer = _MySQLCommentTokenizer(dialect="mysql")
     try:
         tokens = list(tokenizer.tokenize(sql))
     except TokenError: