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MySQL® Crash Course
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MySQL® Crash Course

by Ben Forta
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
4h 52m
English
Sams
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Appendix E. MySQL Reserved Words

MySQL is made up of keywords—special words used in performing SQL operations. Do not use these keywords when naming databases, tables, columns, and any other database objects. These keywords are considered reserved. This appendix lists all of the MySQL reserved words (as of MySQL 5).

ACTION

CASE

DATABASE

ADD

CHANGE

DATABASES

ALL

CHAR

DATE

ALTER

CHARACTER

DAY_HOUR

ANALYZE

CHECK

DAY_MICROSECOND

AND

COLLATE

DAY_MINUTE

AS

COLUMN

DAY_SECOND

ASC

CONDITION

DEC

ASENSITIVE

CONNECTION

DECIMAL

BEFORE

CONSTRAINT

DECLARE

BETWEEN

CONTINUE

DEFAULT

BIGINT

CONVERT

DELAYED

BINARY

CREATE

DELETE

BIT

CROSS

DESC

BLOB

CURRENT_DATE

DESCRIBE

BOTH

CURRENT_TIME

DETERMINISTIC

BY

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

DISTINCT

CALL

CURRENT_USER

DISTINCTROW

CASCADE

CURSOR

DIV

DOUBLE

HOUR_MINUTE

LINES

DROP

HOUR_SECOND

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