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SQL Reserved Word list

Is there a system table in Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 which lists all the Reserved Words? I am writing an app which will allow the user to define the column names of a view. I want to check to make sure that they are not trying to name a column with a reserved word like 'SELECT' or 'TABLE'. As far as I can tell, there is no table which lists the reserved words. I may have to create my own reference table.

vijayakumar

There is no table which lists the reserved keywords but i think its easy to build with a little bit of effort. But if you want to allow the reserved word to be either a column name or a table name, you can do that. I am givig an example here.

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER on
go
create table "table"
( "select" char(40), "update" char(30) );

Whn QUOTED_IDENTIFIER s turned on, strings with double quotation will not be evalualted or checked against keywords. But this is not a good practice and its better to avoid.

jsullivan

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Thanks for your input. I knew about the quoted identifier approach, but we did not want to use that method.

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jsullivan

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Thanks for the list. I'm also going to add the list of words which SQL Server has reserved for future possible use. These are:

ABSOLUTE
ACTION
ALLOCATE
ARE
ASSERTION
AT
AUTHORIZATION
BOTH
CASCADE
CASCADED
CAST
CATALOG
CHAR_LENGTH
CHARACTER
CHARACTER_LENGTH
COLLATE
COLLATION
COLUMN
CONNECT
CONNECTION
CONSTRAINTS
CORRESPONDING
DATE
DAY
DEFERRABLE
DEFERRED
DESCRIBE
DESCRIPTOR
DIAGNOSTICS
DISCONNECT
DOMAIN
END_EXEC
ESCAPE
EXCEPTION
EXPIREDATE
EXTERNAL
EXTRACT
FALSE
FILE
FIRST
FULL
GET
GLOBAL
HOUR
IMMEDIATE
INITIALLY
INNER
INPUT
INTERVAL
JOIN
LAST
LEADING
LEFT
LOCAL
MATCH
MINUTE
MONTH
NAMES
NATIONAL
NATURAL
NCHAR
NEXT
NO
OCTET_LENGTH
OUTER
OUTPUT
OVERLAPS
PAD
PARTIAL
POSITION
PRESERVE
PRIOR
PRIVILEGES
RELATIVE
RESTRICT
RETAINDAYS
RIGHT
ROWS
SCHEMA
SECOND
SESSION
SIZE
SPACE
SQLSTATE
TIME
TIMESTAMP
TIMEZONE_HOUR
TIMEZONE_MINUTE
TRAILING
TRANSLATE
TRANSLATION
TRUE
UNKNOWN
USAGE
USING
VALUE
VOLUME
WORK
WRITE
YEAR
ZONE

A few of these are in the list of new words for SQL 7.

Thanks.