SQL Reserved Words
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The following list includes all words reserved by the Microsoft Jet database engine for use in SQL statements. The words in the list that are not in all uppercase letters are also reserved by other applications. Consequently, the individual Help topics for these words provide general descriptions that do not focus on SQL usage.
Note Words followed by an asterisk (*) are reserved but currently have no meaning in the context of a Microsoft® Jet SQL statement (for example, Level and TableID). Words that are not underlined do not have linked explanations.
| ABSOLUTE | ANY |
| ADD | ARE |
| ADMINDB | AS |
| ALL | ASC |
| Alphanumeric — See TEXT | ASSERTION |
| ALTER | AUTHORIZATION |
| ALTER TABLE | AUTOINCREMENT — See COUNTER |
| And | Avg |
| AS |
| BEGIN | COLLATION |
| Between | COLUMN |
| BINARY | COMMIT |
| BIT | COMP, COMPRESSION |
| BIT_LENGTH | CONNECT |
| BOOLEAN — See BIT | CONNECTION |
| BOTH | CONSTRAINT, CONSTRAINTS |
| BY | CONTAINER |
| BYTE | CONTAINS |
| CASCADE | CONVERT |
| CATALOG | Count |
| CHAR, CHARACTER — See TEXT | COUNTER |
| CHAR_LENGTH | CREATE |
| CHARACTER_LENGTH | CURRENCY |
| CHECK | CURRENT_DATE |
| CLOSE | CURRENT_TIME |
| CLUSTERED | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |
| COALESCE | CURRENT_USER |
| COLLATE | CURSOR |
| DATABASE | DISALLOW |
| DATE — See DATETIME | DISCONNECT |
| DATETIME | DISTINCT |
| DAY | DISTINCTROW |
| DEC, DECIMAL | DOMAIN |
| DECLARE | DOUBLE |
| DELETE | DROP |
| DESC |
| Eqv | FOREIGN |
| EXCLUSIVECONNECT | FROM |
| EXEC, EXECUTE | FROM Clause |
| EXISTS | GENERAL — See LONGBINARY |
| EXTRACT | GRANT |
| FALSE | GROUP |
| FETCH | GUID |
| FIRST | HAVING |
| FLOAT, FLOAT8 — See DOUBLE | HOUR |
| FLOAT4 — See SINGLE |
| IDENTITY | INPUT |
| IEEEDOUBLE — See DOUBLE | INSENSITIVE |
| IEEESINGLE — See SINGLE | INSERT |
| IGNORE | INSERT INTO |
| IMAGE | INT, INTEGER, INTEGER4 — See LONG |
| Imp | INTEGER1 — See BYTE |
| In | INTEGER2 — See SHORT |
| IN | INTERVAL |
| INDEX | INTO |
| INDEXCREATEDB | Is |
| INNER | ISOLATION |
| JOIN | LONGTEXT |
| KEY | LOWER |
| LANGUAGE | MATCH |
| LAST | Max |
| LEFT | MEMO — See LONGTEXT |
| Level* | Min |
| Like | MINUTE |
| LOGICAL, LOGICAL1 — See BIT | Mod |
| LONG | MONEY — See CURRENCY |
| LONGBINARY | MONTH |
| LONGCHAR |
| NATIONAL | Outer* |
| NCHAR | OUTPUT |
| NONCLUSTERED | OWNERACCESS |
| Not | PAD |
| NTEXT | PARAMETERS |
| NULL | PARTIAL |
| NUMBER — See DOUBLE | PASSWORD |
| NUMERIC — See DECIMAL | PERCENT |
| NVARCHAR | PIVOT |
| OCTET_LENGTH | POSITION |
| OLEOBJECT — See LONGBINARY | PRECISION |
| ON | PREPARE |
| OPEN | PRIMARY |
| OPTION | PRIVILEGES |
| Or | PROC, PROCEDURE |
| ORDER | PUBLIC |
| REAL — See SINGLE | SMALLDATETIME |
| REFERENCES | SMALLINT — See SHORT |
| RESTRICT | SMALLMONEY |
| REVOKE | SOME |
| RIGHT | SPACE |
| ROLLBACK | SQL |
| SCHEMA | SQLCODE, SQLERROR, SQLSTATE |
| SECOND | StDev |
| SELECT | StDevP |
| SELECTSCHEMA | STRING — See TEXT |
| SELECTSECURITY | SUBSTRING |
| SET | Sum |
| SHORT | SYSNAME |
| SINGLE | SYSTEM_USER |
| SIZE |
| TABLE | UPDATEOWNER |
| TableID* | UPDATESECURITY |
| TEMPORARY | UPPER |
| TEXT | USAGE |
| TIME — See DATETIME | USER |
| TIMESTAMP | USING |
| TIMEZONE_HOUR | VALUE |
| TIMEZONE_MINUTE | VALUES |
| TINYINT | Var |
| TO | VARBINARY — See BINARY |
| TOP | VARCHAR — See TEXT |
| TRAILING | VarP |
| TRANSACTION | VARYING |
| TRANSFORM | VIEW |
| TRANSLATE | WHEN |
| TRANSLATION | WHENEVER |
| TRIM | WHERE |
| TRUE | WITH |
| UNION | WORK |
| UNIQUE | Xor |
| UNIQUEIDENTIFIER | YEAR |
| UNKNOWN | YESNO — See BIT |
| UPDATE | ZONE |
| UPDATEIDENTITY |