Article ID: 248738
Article Last Modified on 8/12/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q248738
For a Microsoft Access 2002 version of this article, see 321266.
For a Microsoft Access 97 or earlier version of this article, see 109312.
SUMMARY
The Microsoft Jet database engine runs in several different modes depending on whether it is called from Microsoft Access, Data Access Objects, the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Jet, or the Microsoft Access ODBC driver. It can be run in either ANSI mode or non-ANSI (traditional) mode.
Each of these modes results in a slightly different set of reserved words. Queries written in one mode may use a reserved word as an identifier and fail in another mode because of this.
This article provides a list of reserved words to avoid when choosing identifier names.
MORE INFORMATION
Reserved Words
A
ABSOLUTE ACTION ADD ADMINDB
ALL ALLOCATE ALPHANUMERIC ALTER
AND ANY ARE AS
ASC ASSERTION AT AUTHORIZATION
AUTOINCREMENT AVG
B
BAND BEGIN BETWEEN BINARY
BIT BIT_LENGTH BNOT BOR
BOTH BXOR BY BYTE
C
CASCADE CASCADED CASE CAST
CATALOG CHAR CHARACTER CHAR_LENGTH
CHARACTER_LENGTH CHECK CLOSE COALESCE
COLLATE COLLATION COLUMN COMMIT
COMP COMPRESSION CONNECT CONNECTION
CONSTRAINT CONSTRAINTS CONTAINER CONTINUE
CONVERT CORRESPONDING COUNT COUNTER
CREATE CREATEDB CROSS CURRENCY
CURRENT CURRENT_DATE CURRENT_TIME CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
CURRENT_USER CURSOR
D
DATABASE DATE DATETIME DAY
DEALLOCATE DEC DECIMAL DECLARE
DEFAULT DEFERRABLE DEFERRED DELETE
DESC DESCRIBE DESCRIPTOR DIAGNOSTICS
DISALLOW DISCONNECT DISTINCT DOMAIN
DOUBLE DROP
E
ELSE END END-EXEC ESCAPE
EXCEPT EXCEPTION EXCLUSIVECONNECT EXEC
EXECUTE EXISTS EXTERNAL EXTRACT
F
FALSE FETCH FIRST FLOAT
FLOAT4 FLOAT8 FOR FOREIGN
FOUND FROM FULL
G
GENERAL GET GLOBAL GO
GOTO GRANT GROUP GUID
H
HAVING HOUR
I
IDENTITY IEEEDOUBLE IEEESINGLE IGNORE
IMAGE IMMEDIATE IN INDEX
INDICATOR INHERITABLE INITIALLY INNER
INPUT INSENSITIVE INSERT INT
INTEGER INTEGER1 INTEGER2 INTEGER4
INTERSECT INTERVAL INTO IS
ISOLATION
J
JOIN
K
KEY
L
LANGUAGE LAST LEADING LEFT
LEVEL LIKE LOCAL LOGICAL
LOGICAL1 LONG LONGBINARY LONGCHAR
LONGTEXT LOWER
M
MATCH MAX MEMO MIN
MINUTE MODULE MONEY MONTH
N
NAMES NATIONAL NATURAL NCHAR
NEXT NO NOT NOTE
NULL NULLIF NUMBER NUMERIC
O
OBJECT OCTET_LENGTH OF OLEOBJECT
ON ONLY OPEN OPTION
OR ORDER OUTER OUTPUT
OVERLAPS OWNERACCESS
P
PAD PARAMETERS PARTIAL PASSWORD
PERCENT PIVOT POSITION PRECISION
PREPARE PRESERVE PRIMARY PRIOR
PRIVILEGES PROC PROCEDURE PUBLIC
Q
R
READ REAL REFERENCES RELATIVE
RESTRICT REVOKE RIGHT ROLLBACK
ROWS
S
SCHEMA SCROLL SECOND SECTION
SELECT SELECTSCHEMA SELECTSECURITY SESSION
SESSION_USER SET SHORT SINGLE
SIZE SMALLINT SOME SPACE
SQL SQLCODE SQLERROR SQLSTATE
STRING SUBSTRING SUM SYSTEM_USER
T
TABLE TABLEID TEMPORARY TEXT
THEN TIME TIMESTAMP TIMEZONE_HOUR
TIMEZONE_MINUTE TO TOP TRAILING
TRANSACTION TRANSFORM TRANSLATE TRANSLATION
TRIM TRUE
U
UNION UNIQUE UNIQUEIDENTIFIER UNKNOWN
UPDATE UPDATEIDENTITY UPDATEOWNER UPDATESECURITY
UPPER USAGE USER USING
V
VALUE VALUES VARBINARY VARCHAR
VARYING VIEW
W
WHEN WHENEVER WHERE WITH
WORK WRITE
X
Y
YEAR YESNO
Z
ZONE
Starting with Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.6, MDAC no longer contains the following Jet components:
- Microsoft Jet
- Microsoft Jet OLE DB Provider
- ODBC Desktop Database Drivers
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
239114 How to obtain the latest service pack for the Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database Engine
The MDAC 2.5 Stack and Windows File Protection white paper contains a full list of the components that are shipped with MDAC 2.5, along with a discussion of Windows File Protection. Refer to this white paper for more information about the Jet dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that are included in MDAC 2.5, which are no longer a part of MDAC 2.6.
For more information about MDAC 2.5 and Windows File Protection, see the following Microsoft Web site:
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