Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax Reserved Words for Dynamic Server 2000

This appendix lists the reserved words in the Informix implementation of SQL in Dynamic Server. Although you can use almost any word as an SQL identifier, syntactic ambiguities can occur. An ambiguous statement might not produce the desired results.

To avoid using a reserved word, Informix recommends that you qualify the word with an owner name or modify the word. For example, rather than name a database object ORDER, you might name it o_order or yatin.order. For a discussion of additional workarounds for particular reserved words, see Identifier.