A.1. RESERVED KEYWORDS
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 has the reserved keywords that are listed in the following table.These keywords may not be used as identifiers unless they are done as delimited identifiers. In general, this practice is discouraged. Both uppercase and lowercase versions are reserved.
| ADD | DELETE | IS | RETURN |
| ALL | DENY | JOIN | REVOKE |
| ALTER | DESC | KEY | RIGHT |
| AND | DISK | KILL | ROLLBACK |
| ANY | DISTINCT | LEFT | ROWCOUNT |
| AS | DISTRIBUTED | LIKE | ROWGUIDCOL |
| ASC | DOUBLE | LINENO | RULE |
| AUTHORIZATION | DROP | LOAD | SAVE |
| BACKUP | DUMMY | NATIONAL | SCHEMA |
| BEGIN | DUMP | NOCHECK | SELECT |
| BETWEEN | ELSE | NONCLUSTERED | SESSION_USER |
| BREAK | END | NOT | SET |
| BROWSE | ERRLVL | NULL | SETUSER |
| BULK | ESCAPE | NULLIF | SHUTDOWN |
| BY | EXCEPT | OF | SOME |
| CASCADE | EXEC | OFF | STATISTICS |
| CASE | EXECUTE | OFFSETS | SYSTEM_USER |
| CHECK | EXISTS | ON | TABLE |
| CHECKPOINT | EXIT | OPEN | TEXTSIZE |
| CLOSE | FETCH | OPENDATASOURCE | THEN |
| CLUSTERED ... |
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