Reserved Words

Keywords in are specific words that the database can interpret either as SQL syntax or unquoted identifiers. You cannot use a subset of them, named reserved words, as unquoted identifiers without introducing parsing ambiguities in the database. As a result, when you use these words as an identifier, you must surround the reserved word with double quotes. You can find these words in the sys.reserved_words system catalog table.

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A

ADD | ALL | ALTER | AND | ANTI | ANY | ARRAY | AS

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B

BALANCE | BETWEEN

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C

CACHE | CALL | CANCEL | CASE | CAST | CLASS | CLUSTERING | COLUMN | COLVECTOR | COMMENT | COMPRESSION | COUNT | CREATE | CROSS | CURRENT | CURRENT_DATABASE | CURRENT_DATE | CURRENT_SCHEMA | CURRENT_TIME | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | CURRENT_USER

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D

DATA | DATABASE | DEFAULT | DELETE | DISABLE | DISTINCT | DROP

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E

ELSE | ENABLE | EQUALS | ERROR | EXCEPT | EXECUTE | EXISTING | EXISTS | EXPLAIN | EXPORT | EXTRACT

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F

FALSE | FIRST | FOLLOWING | FROM | FULL | FUNCTION

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G

GDC | GRANT

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H

HAVING

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I

IGNORE | ILIKE | IN | INDEX | INNER | INSERT | INTERSECT | INTERVAL | INTO | INVALIDATE | IS

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J

JOIN

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K

KILL

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L

LAST | LATERAL | LEFT | LIKE | LOAD | LOADERS

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M

MATRIX | MLMODEL | MOVE

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N

NODE | NOT | NULL | NULLS

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O

OFFSET | ON | OPTION | OPTIONS | ORDER | OUTER | OVER

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P

PARTITION | PRAGMA | PRECEDING | PROCEDURE

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R

RANGE | REDUNDANCY | REFRESH | REGEX | REMOVE | RENAME | RESET | REVOKE | RIGHT | ROLE | ROW | ROWS | ROWVECTOR

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S

SEGMENT | SELECT | SEMI | SERVICE | SET | SHOW | SIMILAR | SOME | START | STOP | STORAGESPACE | SUMMARY_STATS | SYSAUTH

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T

TABLE | TAG | TASK | THEN | TO | TRACE | TRUE | TRUNCATE | TYPE

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U

UNBOUNDED | UNION | USE | USING

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V

VIEW

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W

WHEN | WHERE | WITH

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Z

ZSTD

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