8 Other Possible Reserved Words

The following words are not reserved by Oracle but they are used by Oracle. In other words, you may or may not get conflicts when you use them, so it is suggested that you do not use them. If you think you've encountered a naming conflict, check this list and change the name of the object, if necessary. Those keywords that have an asterisk (*) beside them are part of the ANSI standard and are probably reserved by other database programs.
 
ADMIN AFTER ALLOCATE ANALYZE
ARCHIVE ARCHIVELOG AUTHORIZATION* AVG*

BACKUP BEGIN* BECOME BEFORE
BLOCK BODY

CACHE CANCEL CASCADE CHANGE
CHARACTER* CHECKPOINT CLOSE* COBOL*
COMMIT* COMPILE CONSTRAINT CONSTRAINTS
CONTENTS CONTINUE* CONTROLFILE COUNT*
CURSOR* CYCLE

DATABASE DATAFILE DBA DEC*
DECLARE* DISABLE DISMOUNT DOUBLE*
DUMP

EACH ENABLE END* ESCAPE*
EVENTS EXCEPT EXCEPTIONS EXEC*
EXPLAIN EXECUTE EXTENT EXTERNALLY

FETCH* FLUSH FREELIST FREELISTS
FORCE FOREIGN* FORTRAN* FOUND*
FUNCTION

GO* GOTO* GROUPS

INCLUDING INDICATOR* INITRANS INSTANCE
INT*

KEY*

LANGUAGE* LAYER LINK LISTS
LOGFILE

MANAGE MANUAL MAX* MAXDATAFILES
MAXINSTANCES MAXLOGFILES MAXLOGHISTORY MAXLOGMEMBERS
MAXTRANS MAXVALUE MIN* MINEXTENTS
MINVALUE MODULE* MOUNT

NEXT NEW NOARCHIVELOG NOCACHE
NOCYCLE NOMAXVALUE NOMINVALUE NONE
NOORDER NORESETLOGS NORMAL NOSORT
NUMERIC*

OFF OLD ONLY OPTIMAL
OPEN* OWN

PACKAGE PARALLEL PASCAL* PCTINCREASE
PCTUSED PLAN PLI* PRECISION*
PRIMARY* PRIVATE PROCEDURE* PROFILE

QUOTA

READ REAL* RECOVERY REFERENCES*
REFERENCING RESETLOGS RESTRICTED REUSE
ROLE ROLES ROLLBACK*

SAVEPOINT SCHEME* SCN SECTION*
SEGMENT SEQUENCE SHARED SNAPSHOT
SOME* SORT SQL* SQLCODE*
SQLERROR* STATEMENT_ID STATISTICS STOP
STORAGE SUM* SWITCH SYSTEM

TABLES TABLESPACE TEMPORARY THREAD
TIME TRACING TRANSACTION TRIGGERS
TRUNCATE

UNDER UNLIMITED UNTIL USE
USING

WHEN WRITE WORK*