Appendix D. SQL Reserved Words

SQL is a language made up of keywords—special words that are used in performing SQL operations. Special care must be taken to not use these keywords when naming databases, tables, columns, and any other database objects. Thus, these keywords are considered reserved.

This appendix contains a list of the more common reserved words found in major DBMSs. Please note the following:

Image Keywords tend to be very DBMS-specific, and not all the keywords that follow are used by all DBMSs.

Image Many DBMSs have extended the list of SQL ...

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