Reserved words (listed in Table D-1) and keywords (listed in Table D-2) are identifiers that have special meaning in PL/SQL. They are case-insensitive. For more information about them, see "Reserved Words and Keywords".
Note:
Some of the words in this appendix are also reserved by SQL. You can display them with the dynamic performance viewV$RESERVED_WORDS. For information about this view, see Oracle Database Reference.Table D-1 PL/SQL Reserved Words
| Begins with: | Reserved Words |
|---|---|
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A |
ALL, ALTER, AND, ANY, AS, ASC, AT |
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B |
BEGIN, BETWEEN, BY |
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C |
CASE, CHECK, CLUSTERS, CLUSTER, COLAUTH, COLUMNS, COMPRESS, CONNECT, CRASH, CREATE, CURSOR |
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D |
DECLARE, DEFAULT, DESC, DISTINCT, DROP |
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E |
ELSE, END, EXCEPTION, EXCLUSIVE |
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F |
FETCH, FOR, FROM, FUNCTION |
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G |
GOTO, GRANT, GROUP |
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H |
HAVING |
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I |
IDENTIFIED, IF, IN, INDEX, INDEXES, INSERT, INTERSECT, INTO, IS |
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L |
LIKE, LOCK |
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M |
MINUS, MODE |
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N |
NOCOMPRESS, NOT, NOWAIT, NULL |
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O |
OF, ON, OPTION, OR, ORDER, OVERLAPS |
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P |
PROCEDURE, PUBLIC |
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R |
RESOURCE, REVOKE |
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S |
SELECT, SHARE, SIZE, SQL, START, SUBTYPE |
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T |
TABAUTH, TABLE, THEN, TO, TYPE |
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U |
UNION, UNIQUE, UPDATE |
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V |
VALUES, VIEW, VIEWS |
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W |
WHEN, WHERE, WITH |
| Begins with: | Keywords |
|---|---|
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A |
A, ADD, AGENT, AGGREGATE, ARRAY, ATTRIBUTE, AUTHID, AVG |
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B |
BFILE_BASE, BINARY, BLOB_BASE, BLOCK, BODY, BOTH, BOUND, BULK, BYTE |
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C |
C, CALL, CALLING, CASCADE, CHAR, CHAR_BASE, CHARACTER, CHARSET, CHARSETFORM, CHARSETID, CLOB_BASE, CLOSE, COLLECT, COMMENT, COMMIT, COMMITTED, COMPILED, CONSTANT, CONSTRUCTOR, CONTEXT, CONTINUE, CONVERT, COUNT, CURRENT, CUSTOMDATUM |
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D |
DANGLING, DATA, DATE, DATE_BASE, DAY, DEFINE, DELETE, DETERMINISTIC, DOUBLE, DURATION |
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E |
ELEMENT, ELSIF, EMPTY, ESCAPE, EXCEPT, EXCEPTIONS, EXECUTE, EXISTS, EXIT, EXTERNAL |
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F |
FINAL, FIXED, FLOAT, FORALL, FORCE |
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G |
GENERAL |
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H |
HASH, HEAP, HIDDEN, HOUR |
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I |
IMMEDIATE, INCLUDING, INDICATOR, INDICES, INFINITE, INSTANTIABLE, INT, INTERFACE, INTERVAL, INVALIDATE, ISOLATION |
|
J |
JAVA |
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L |
LANGUAGE, LARGE, LEADING, LENGTH, LEVEL, LIBRARY, LIKE2, LIKE4, LIKEC, LIMIT, LIMITED, LOCAL, LONG, LOOP |
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M |
MAP, MAX, MAXLEN, MEMBER, MERGE, MIN, MINUTE, MOD, MODIFY, MONTH, MULTISET |
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N |
NAME, NAN, NATIONAL, NATIVE, NCHAR, NEW, NOCOPY, NUMBER_BASE |
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O |
OBJECT, OCICOLL, OCIDATE, OCIDATETIME, OCIDURATION, OCIINTERVAL, OCILOBLOCATOR, OCINUMBER, OCIRAW, OCIREF, OCIREFCURSOR, OCIROWID, OCISTRING, OCITYPE, OLD, ONLY, OPAQUE, OPEN, OPERATOR, ORACLE, ORADATA, ORGANIZATION, ORLANY, ORLVARY, OTHERS, OUT, OVERRIDING |
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P |
PACKAGE, PARALLEL_ENABLE, PARAMETER, PARAMETERS, PARENT, PARTITION, PASCAL, PIPE, PIPELINED, PRAGMA, PRECISION, PRIOR, PRIVATE |
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R |
RAISE, RANGE, RAW, READ, RECORD, REF, REFERENCE, RELIES_ON, REM, REMAINDER, RENAME, RESULT, RESULT_CACHE, RETURN, RETURNING, REVERSE, ROLLBACK, ROW |
|
S |
SAMPLE, SAVE, SAVEPOINT, SB1, SB2, SB4, SECOND, SEGMENT, SELF, SEPARATE, SEQUENCE, SERIALIZABLE, SET, SHORT, SIZE_T, SOME, SPARSE, SQLCODE, SQLDATA, SQLNAME, SQLSTATE, STANDARD, STATIC, STDDEV, STORED, STRING, STRUCT, STYLE, SUBMULTISET, SUBPARTITION, SUBSTITUTABLE, SUM, SYNONYM |
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T |
TDO, THE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, TIMEZONE_ABBR, TIMEZONE_HOUR, TIMEZONE_MINUTE, TIMEZONE_REGION, TRAILING, TRANSACTION, TRANSACTIONAL, TRUSTED |
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U |
UB1, UB2, UB4, UNDER, UNSIGNED, UNTRUSTED, USE, USING |
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V |
VALIST, VALUE, VARIABLE, VARIANCE, VARRAY, VARYING, VOID |
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W |
WHILE, WORK, WRAPPED, WRITE |
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Y |
YEAR |
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Z |
ZONE |