Oracle7 Server SQL Reference

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Reserved Words

This section lists changes to the SQL reserved words in Oracle7:

A complete list of all the SQL reserved words for Oracle7, begins [*].

New Reserved Words

Oracle7 has new SQL reserved words:

ROWLABEL

This reserved word is the name of a column automatically created by Trusted Oracle7 for all tables in the database. This column holds the label for each row in the table. For more information on ROWLABEL, see Trusted Oracle7 Server Administrator's Guide.

In the standard Oracle7 Server, ROWLABEL is also a reserved word and always evaluates to null.

VARCHAR2

This reserved word is a datatype for variable length character strings. For more information on this datatype, see the section "Oracle Datatypes" beginning [*] and the section "Character Datatypes" [*].

Do not use these words to name objects or their parts in Oracle7.

Obsolete Reserved Words

Previous versions of Oracle contained SQL reserved words that are no longer reserved in Oracle7:

You can use these words as names of schema objects or object parts in Oracle7.

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