Teradata SQL Quick Reference Guide: Simplicity by Design, Second

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Appendix A: Current Reserved Words

Overview
The following list indicates all of the Teradata release V2R4.1 reserved words. These are words that need to be avoided when creating
database objects. If they are used for anything other than their reserved meaning, they will need to be enclosed in double quotes (").
-A-

ABORT

ABORTSESSION

ABS

ACCESS_LOCK

ACCOUNT

ADD

ADD_MONTHS

AFTER

ALL

ALTER

AMP

AND

ANSIDATE

ANY

AS

ASC

AT

ATOMIC

AVE

AVERAGE

AVG

-B-

BEFORE

BEGIN

BT

BUT

BYTEINT

BYTES

-C-

BETWEEN

BOTH

BY

BYTE

CALL

CASE

CASESPECIFIC

CAST

CD

CHAR

CHARACTER

CHARACTERS

CHARS

CHAR2HEXINT

CHARACTER_LENGTH
CHAR_LENGTH

CHECK

CHECKPOINT

CLUSTER

CM

COALESCE

COLLATION

COLLECTCOLUMN

COMMENT

COMMIT

COMPRESS

CONSTRAINT

CONTINUE

CONVERT_TABLE_HEADER

CORR OLAP

COUNT

COVAR_POP

CREATE

CROSS

CS

CSUM

CT

CURRENT

CURRENT_DATE

CURRENT_TIME

CURSOR
-D-

CV

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

DATABASE

DATABLOCKSIZE

DATE

DATEFORM

DAY

DEC

DECIMAL

DECLARE

DEFAULT

DEL

DELETE

DESC

DIAGNOSTIC

DISABLED

DISTINCT

DO

DOUBLE

DROP

DUAL

-E-

DUMP

EACH

ECHO

ELSE

ELSEIF

ENABLED

END

EQ

ERROR

ERRORFILES

ERRORTABLES

ESCAPE

ET

EXCEPT

EXEC

EXECUTE

EXISTS

EXIT
-F-

EXP

EXPLAIN

EXTRACT

FALLBACK

FASTEXPORT

FLOAT

FOREIGN

FORMAT

FREESPACE

FOR
FROM

FULL

-G-

GCOUNT OLAP

GE

GIVE

GRAPHIC

GROUP

GSUM

-H-

GRANT
GT

HANDLER

HASH

HASHAMP

HASHBUCKET

HASHROW

HAVING

HASHBAKAMP
HELP

HOUR

-I-

IF

IMMEDIATE

IN

INCONSISTENT

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INDEX

INITIATE

INNER

INOUT

INS

INSERT

INSTEAD

INT

INTEGER

INTEGERDATE

INTERSECT

INTO

IS

ITERATE

-J-

JOIN
-K-

JOURNAL

KEY
-L-

KURTOSIS

INTERVAL

LE

LEADING

LEAVE

LEFT

LIKE

LN

LOADING

LOCAL

LOCK

LOCKING

LOG

LOGGING

LOGON

LONG

LOOP

LOWER

LT

-M-

MACRO

MAVG

MAX

MAXIMUM

MCHARACTERS

MDIFF

MEM

MINDEX

MINIMUM

MINUS

MINUTE

MLINREG

MLOAD

MOD

MODE

MODIFY

MONITOR

MONRESOURCE

MONSESSION

MONTH

MSUBSTR

MSUM

MULTISET

-N-

NAMED

NATURAL

NE

NEW

NEW_TABLE

NO

NOT

NOWAIT

NULL

NULLIF

NULLIFZERO

-O-

NUMERIC

OCTET_LENGTH

OF

OFF

OLD

OLD_TABLE

ON

OPTION

OR

ORDER

OUT

OUTER

OVERLAPS

OVERRIDE

-P-

OVER

PASSWORD

PERCENT

PERM

PERMANENT

POSITION

PRECISION

PRESERVE

PRIMARY

PRIVILEGES

PROCEDURE

PROTECTION

-Q-

QUALIFY
-R-

QUANTILE

PUBLIC

RANDOM

RANK

REAL

REFERENCES

REFERENCING

REGR_INTERCEPT

REGR_SLOPE

RELEASE

RENAME

REPLACE

REPLICATION

REPOVERRIDE

REQUEST

RESTART

RESTORE

RESUME

RET

RETRIEVE

REVALIDATE

REVOKE

RIGHT

RIGHTS

ROLE

ROLLBACK

ROLLFORWARD

ROW

ROWID

-S-

ROWS

SAMPLE

SAMPLEID

SECOND

SEL

SELECT

SESSION

SET

SETRESRATE

SETSESSRATE

SHOW

SKEW

SMALLINT

SOME

SPOOL

SQLEXCEPTION

SQRT

SS

STARTUP

STATEMENT

STATISTICS

STDDEV_POP

STDDEV_SAMP

STRING_CS

SUBSCRIBER

SUBSTR

SUBSTRING

SUM

-TTABLE

TBL_CS

SUSPEND

TEMPORARY

TERMINATE

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THEN

TIME

TIMEZONE_MINUTE

TIMESTAMP

TIMEZONE_HOUR

TITLE

TO

TRAILING

TRANSACTION

TRANSLATE

TRIGGER

TRIM

TYPE

-U-

UC

UNDEFINED

UNDO

UNIQUE

UPD

UPDATE

UPPERCASE

USER

USING

-V-

VALUES

VARBYTE

VARGRAPHIC

VARYING

VAR_POP

VIEW

VOLATILE

WHEN

UNION
UPPER

VALUE

-W-

TRANSLATE_CHK

VARCHAR
VAR_SAMP

WHERE

WHILE

WITH

WORK

-Y-

YEAR

-Z-

ZEROIFNULL

ZONE

Future Reserved Words

The following words are reserved for the future:
-A-

ALIAS

AUTHORIZATION

-D-

DESCRIPTOR

-G-

GO

GOTO

-I-

INDICATOR

-P-

PRIVATE

-W-

WAIT

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