Reserved Words

The following are the reserved words in Oracle SQL. Those in italics are also ANSI reserved words. In addition, Oracle uses the "SYS_" prefix internally to identify implicitly generated schema objects and you should avoid the use of any words beginning with this prefix.

ACCESS	CREATE	HAVING	MODE	PUBLIC	SYSDATE
ADD	CURRENT	IDENTIFIED	MODIFY	RAW	TABLE
ALL	DATE	IMMEDIATE	NOAUDIT	RENAME	THEN
ALTER	DECIMAL	IN	NOCOMPRESS	RESOURCE	TO
AND	DEFAULT	INCREMENT	NOT	REVOKE	TRIGGER
ANY	DELETE	INDEX	NOWAIT	ROW	UID
AS	DESC	INITIAL	NULL	ROWID	UNION
ASC	DISTINCT	INSERT	NUMBER	ROWNUM	UNIQUE
AUDIT	DROP	INTEGER	OF	ROWS	UPDATE
BETWEEN	ELSE	INTERSECT	OFFLINE	SELECT	USER
BY	EXCLUSIVE	INTO	ON	SESSION	VALIDATE
CHAR	EXISTS	IS	ONLINE	SET	VALUES
CHECK	FILE	LEVEL	OPTION	SHARE	VARCHAR
CLUSTER	FLOAT	LIKE	OR	SIZE	VARCHAR2
COLUMN	FOR	LOCK	ORDER	SMALLINT	VIEW
COMMENT	FROM	LONG	PCTFREE	START	WHENEVER
COMPRESS	GRANT	MAXEXTENTS	PRIOR	SUCCESSFUL	WHERE
CONNECT	GROUP	MINUS	PRIVILEGES	SYNONYM	WITH