SQL reserved words

This section lists all the Derby reserved words, including those in the SQL-92 standard. Derby will return an error if you use any of these keywords as an identifier name unless you surround the identifier name with quotes ("). See Rules for SQL92 identifiers.
  • ADD
  • ALL
  • ALLOCATE
  • ALTER
  • AND
  • ANY
  • ARE
  • AS
  • ASC
  • ASSERTION
  • AT
  • AUTHORIZATION
  • AVG
  • BEGIN
  • BETWEEN
  • BIT
  • BOOLEAN
  • BOTH
  • BY
  • CALL
  • CASCADE
  • CASCADED
  • CASE
  • CAST
  • CHAR
  • CHARACTER
  • CHECK
  • CLOSE
  • COLLATE
  • COLLATION
  • COLUMN
  • COMMIT
  • CONNECT
  • CONNECTION
  • CONSTRAINT
  • CONSTRAINTS
  • CONTINUE
  • CONVERT
  • CORRESPONDING
  • COUNT
  • CREATE
  • CURRENT
  • CURRENT_DATE
  • CURRENT_TIME
  • CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
  • CURRENT_USER
  • CURSOR
  • DEALLOCATE
  • DEC
  • DECIMAL
  • DECLARE
  • DEFERRABLE
  • DEFERRED
  • DELETE
  • DESC
  • DESCRIBE
  • DIAGNOSTICS
  • DISCONNECT
  • DISTINCT
  • DOUBLE
  • DROP
  • ELSE
  • END
  • ENDEXEC
  • ESCAPE
  • EXCEPT
  • EXCEPTION
  • EXEC
  • EXECUTE
  • EXISTS
  • EXPLAIN
  • EXTERNAL
  • FALSE
  • FETCH
  • FIRST
  • FLOAT
  • FOR
  • FOREIGN
  • FOUND
  • FROM
  • FULL
  • FUNCTION
  • GET
  • GET_CURRENT_CONNECTION
  • GLOBAL
  • GO
  • GOTO
  • GRANT
  • GROUP
  • HAVING
  • HOUR
  • IDENTITY
  • IMMEDIATE
  • IN
  • INDICATOR
  • INITIALLY
  • INNER
  • INOUT
  • INPUT
  • INSENSITIVE
  • INSERT
  • INT
  • INTEGER
  • INTERSECT
  • INTO
  • IS
  • ISOLATION
  • JOIN
  • KEY
  • LAST
  • LEFT
  • LIKE
  • LONGINT
  • LOWER
  • LTRIM
  • MATCH
  • MAX
  • MIN
  • MINUTE
  • NATIONAL
  • NATURAL
  • NCHAR
  • NVARCHAR
  • NEXT
  • NO
  • NOT
  • NULL
  • NULLIF
  • NUMERIC
  • OF
  • ON
  • ONLY
  • OPEN
  • OPTION
  • OR
  • ORDER
  • OUT
  • OUTER
  • OUTPUT
  • OVERLAPS
  • PAD
  • PARTIAL
  • PREPARE
  • PRESERVE
  • PRIMARY
  • PRIOR
  • PRIVILEGES
  • PROCEDURE
  • PUBLIC
  • READ
  • REAL
  • REFERENCES
  • RELATIVE
  • RESTRICT
  • REVOKE
  • RIGHT
  • ROLLBACK
  • ROWS
  • RTRIM
  • SCHEMA
  • SCROLL
  • SECOND
  • SELECT
  • SESSION_USER
  • SET
  • SMALLINT
  • SOME
  • SPACE
  • SQL
  • SQLCODE
  • SQLERROR
  • SQLSTATE
  • SUBSTR
  • SUBSTRING
  • SUM
  • SYSTEM_USER
  • TABLE
  • TEMPORARY
  • TIMEZONE_HOUR
  • TIMEZONE_MINUTE
  • TO
  • TRAILING
  • TRANSACTION
  • TRANSLATE
  • TRANSLATION
  • TRUE
  • UNION
  • UNIQUE
  • UNKNOWN
  • UPDATE
  • UPPER
  • USER
  • USING
  • VALUES
  • VARCHAR
  • VARYING
  • VIEW
  • WHENEVER
  • WHERE
  • WITH
  • WORK
  • WRITE
  • XML
  • XMLEXISTS
  • XMLPARSE
  • XMLSERIALIZE
  • YEAR