How This Document Is Organized

This document includes the following chapters:

• "SQL Language Reference"

  Reference information about Derby's SQL language, including manual pages for statements, functions, and other syntax elements.

• "SQL Reserved Words"

  SQL keywords beyond the standard SQL-92 keywords.

• "Derby Support for SQL-92 Features"

  A list of SQL-92 features that Derby does and does not support.

• "Derby System Tables"

  Reference information about the Derby system catalogs.

• "Derby Exception Messages and SQL States"

  Information about Derby exception messages.

• "JDBC Reference"

  Information about Derby's implementation of the JDBC interface include support for JDBC 2.0 features.

• "Database Connection URL Attributes"

  Information about the supported attributes to Derby's JDBC database connection URL.

• "J2EE Compliance: Java Transaction API and javax.sql Extensions"

  Information about the supported attributes to Derby's support for the Java Transaction API.

• Appendix A, Derby API

  Notes about proprietary APIs for Derby.