PL/SQL Reserved Words

List of PL/SQL Reserved Words

The words listed in this appendix are reserved by PL/SQL. That is, they have a special syntactic meaning to PL/SQL. So, you should not use them to name program objects such as constants, variables, or cursors. Some of these words (marked by an asterisk) are also reserved by SQL. So, you should not use them to name schema objects such as columns, tables, or indexes.

ALL*
ALTER*
AND*
ANY*
ARRAY
AS*
ASC*
AT
AUTHID
AVG
BEGIN
BETWEEN*
BINARY_INTEGER
BODY
BOOLEAN
BULK
BY*
CASE
CHAR*
CHAR_BASE
CHECK*
CLOSE
CLUSTER*
COALESCE
COLLECT
COMMENT*
COMMIT
COMPRESS*
CONNECT*
CONSTANT
CREATE*
CURRENT*
CURRVAL
CURSOR
DATE*
DAY
DECLARE
DECIMAL*
DEFAULT*
DELETE*
DESC*
DISTINCT*
DO
DROP*
ELSE*
ELSIF
END
EXCEPTION
EXCLUSIVE*
EXECUTE
EXISTS*
EXIT
EXTENDS
EXTRACT
FALSE
FETCH
FLOAT*
FOR*
FORALL
FROM*
FUNCTION
GOTO
GROUP*
HAVING*
HEAP
HOUR
IF
IMMEDIATE*
IN*
INDEX*
INDICATOR
INSERT*
INTEGER*
INTERFACE
INTERSECT*
INTERVAL
INTO*
IS*
ISOLATION
JAVA
LEVEL*
LIKE*
LIMITED
LOCK*
LONG*
LOOP
MAX
MIN
MINUS*
MINUTE
MLSLABEL*
MOD
MODE*
MONTH
NATURAL
NATURALN
NEW
NEXTVAL
NOCOPY
NOT*
NOWAIT*
NULL*
NULLIF
NUMBER*
NUMBER_BASE
OCIROWID
OF*
ON*
OPAQUE
OPEN
OPERATOR
OPTION*
OR*
ORDER*
ORGANIZATION
OTHERS
OUT
PACKAGE
PARTITION
PCTFREE*
PLS_INTEGER
POSITIVE
POSITIVEN
PRAGMA
PRIOR*
PRIVATE
PROCEDURE
PUBLIC*
RAISE
RANGE
RAW*
REAL
RECORD
REF
RELEASE
RETURN
REVERSE
ROLLBACK
ROW*
ROWID*
ROWNUM*
ROWTYPE
SAVEPOINT
SECOND
SELECT*
SEPARATE
SET*
SHARE*
SMALLINT*
SPACE
SQL
SQLCODE
SQLERRM
START*
STDDEV
SUBTYPE
SUCCESSFUL*
SUM
SYNONYM*
SYSDATE*
TABLE*
THEN*
TIME
TIMESTAMP
TIMEZONE_REGION
TIMEZONE_ABBR
TIMEZONE_MINUTE
TIMEZONE_HOUR
TO*
TRIGGER*
TRUE
TYPE
UID*
UNION*
UNIQUE*
 UPDATE*                                       
USE
USER*
VALIDATE*
VALUES*
VARCHAR*
VARCHAR2*
VARIANCE
VIEW*
WHEN
WHENEVER*
WHERE*
WHILE
WITH*
WORK
WRITE
YEAR
ZONE