| MySQL is made up of keywordsspecial 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 | LOAD | DUAL | IF | LOCALTIME | EACH | IGNORE | LOCALTIMESTAMP | ELSE | IN | LOCK | ELSEIF | INDEX | LONG | ENCLOSED | INFILE | LONGBLOB | ENUM | INNER | LONGTEXT | ESCAPED | INOUT | LOOP | EXISTS | INSENSITIVE | LOW_PRIORITY | EXIT | INSERT | MATCH | EXPLAIN | INT | MEDIUMBLOB | FALSE | INTEGER | MEDIUMINT | FETCH | INTERVAL | MEDIUMTEXT | FLOAT | INTO | MIDDLEINT | FOR | IS | MINUTE_MICROSECOND | FORCE | ITERATE | MINUTE_SECOND | FOREIGN | JOIN | MOD | FROM | KEY | MODIFIES | FULLTEXT | KEYS | NATURAL | GOTO | KILL | NO | GRANT | LEADING | NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG | GROUP | LEAVE | NOT | HAVING | LEFT | NULL | HIGH_PRIORITY | LIKE | NUMERIC | HOUR_MICROSECOND | LIMIT | ON | OPTIMIZE | RLIKE | THEN | OPTION | SCHEMA | TIME | OPTIONALLY | SCHEMAS | TIMESTAMP | OR | SECOND_MICROSECOND | TINYBLOB | ORDER | SELECT | TINYINT | OUT | SENSITIVE | TINYTEXT | OUTER | SEPARATOR | TO | OUTFILE | SET | TRAILING | PRECISION | SHOW | trIGGER | PRIMARY | SMALLINT | TRUE | PROCEDURE | SONAME | UNDO | PURGE | SPATIAL | UNION | READ | SPECIFIC | UNIQUE | READS | SQL | UNLOCK | REAL | SQL_BIG_RESULT | UNSIGNED | REFERENCES | SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS | UPDATE | REGEXP | SQL_SMALL_RESULT | USAGE | RELEASE | SQLEXCEPTION | USE | RENAME | SQLSTATE | USING | REPEAT | SQLWARNING | UTC_DATE | REPLACE | SSL | UTC_TIME | REQUIRE | STARTING | UTC_TIMESTAMP | RESTRICT | STRAIGHT_JOIN | VALUES | RETURN | TABLE | VARBINARY | REVOKE | TERMINATED | VARCHAR | RIGHT | TEXT | VARCHARACTER | VARYING | | | WHEN | | | WHERE | | | WHILE | | | WITH | | | WRITE | | | XOR | | | YEAR_MONTH | | | ZEROFILL | | | |