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2.5. Reserved Words in MySQL 6.0

The following table shows the reserved words in MySQL 6.0.

ACCESSIBLE ADD ALL
ALTER ANALYZE AND
AS ASC ASENSITIVE
BEFORE BETWEEN BIGINT
BINARY BLOB BOTH
BY CALL CASCADE
CASE CHANGE CHAR
CHARACTER CHECK COLLATE
COLUMN CONDITION CONSTRAINT
CONTINUE CONVERT CREATE
CROSS CURRENT_DATE CURRENT_TIME
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP CURRENT_USER CURSOR
DATABASE DATABASES DAY_HOUR
DAY_MICROSECOND DAY_MINUTE DAY_SECOND
DEC DECIMAL DECLARE
DEFAULT DELAYED DELETE
DESC DESCRIBE DETERMINISTIC
DISTINCT DISTINCTROW DIV
DOUBLE DROP DUAL
EACH ELSE ELSEIF
ENCLOSED ESCAPED EXISTS
EXIT EXPLAIN FALSE
FETCH FLOAT FLOAT4
FLOAT8 FOR FORCE
FOREIGN FROM FULLTEXT
GRANT GROUP HAVING
HIGH_PRIORITY HOUR_MICROSECOND HOUR_MINUTE
HOUR_SECOND IF IGNORE
IGNORE_SERVER_IDS[a] IN INDEX
INFILE INNER INOUT
INSENSITIVE INSERT INT
INT1 INT2 INT3
INT4 INT8 INTEGER
INTERVAL INTO IS
ITERATE JOIN KEY
KEYS KILL LEADING
LEAVE LEFT LIKE
LIMIT LINEAR LINES
LOAD LOCALTIME LOCALTIMESTAMP
LOCK LONG LONGBLOB
LONGTEXT LOOP LOW_PRIORITY
MASTER_HEARTBEAT_PERIOD[b] MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT[c] MATCH
MEDIUMBLOB MEDIUMINT MEDIUMTEXT
MIDDLEINT MINUTE_MICROSECOND MINUTE_SECOND
MOD MODIFIES NATURAL
NOT NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG NULL
NUMERIC ON OPTIMIZE
OPTION OPTIONALLY OR
ORDER OUT OUTER
OUTFILE OVERWRITE[d] PRECISION
PRIMARY PROCEDURE PURGE
RANGE READ READS
READ_ONLY[e] READ_WRITE REAL
REFERENCES REGEXP RELEASE
RENAME REPEAT REPLACE
REQUIRE RESIGNAL[f] RESTRICT
RETURN REVOKE RIGHT
RLIKE SCHEMA SCHEMAS
SECOND_MICROSECOND SELECT SENSITIVE
SEPARATOR SET SHOW
SIGNAL[g] SKIP_GAP_EVENT[h] SMALLINT
SPATIAL SPECIFIC SQL
SQLEXCEPTION SQLSTATE SQLWARNING
SQL_BIG_RESULT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS SQL_SMALL_RESULT
SSL STARTING STRAIGHT_JOIN
TABLE TERMINATED THEN
TINYBLOB TINYINT TINYTEXT
TO TRAILING TRIGGER
TRUE UNDO UNION
UNIQUE UNLOCK UNSIGNED
UPDATE USAGE USE
USING UTC_DATE UTC_TIME
UTC_TIMESTAMP VALUES VARBINARY
VARCHAR VARCHARACTER VARYING
WHEN WHERE WHILE
WITH WRITE XOR
YEAR_MONTH ZEROFILL  

[a] IGNORE_SERVER_IDS not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.9

[b] MASTER_HEARTBEAT_PERIOD not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.4

[c] MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT not reserved in: 6.0.0

[d] OVERWRITE not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.8

[e] READ_ONLY not reserved in: 6.0.11, 6.0.5-6.0.11

[f] RESIGNAL not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.10

[g] SIGNAL not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.10

[h] SKIP_GAP_EVENT not reserved in: 6.0.0-6.0.10

The following are new reserved words in MySQL 6.0:

OVERWRITE READ_ONLY SKIP_GAP_EVENT