SQL Server uses reserved keywords to define, manipulate, and add databases. Reserved keywords are part of the Transact-SQL grammar that is used by SQL Server to parse and understand Transact-SQL statements and batches.
SQL Server instance names cannot match a reserved keyword. Use the following table to ensure that reserved keywords are not used in SQL Server instance names.
ADD
EXCEPT
PERCENT
ALL
EXEC
PLAN
ALTER
EXECUTE
PRECISION
AND
EXISTS
PRIMARY
ANY
EXIT
AS
FETCH
PROC
ASC
FILE
PROCEDURE
AUTHORIZATION
FILLFACTOR
PUBLIC
BACKUP
FOR
RAISERROR
BEGIN
FOREIGN
READ
BETWEEN
FREETEXT
READTEXT
BREAK
FREETEXTTABLE
RECONFIGURE
BROWSE
FROM
REFERENCES
BULK
FULL
REPLICATION
BY
FUNCTION
RESTORE
CASCADE
GOTO
RESTRICT
CASE
GRANT
RETURN
CHECK
GROUP
REVOKE
CHECKPOINT
HAVING
RIGHT
CLOSE
HOLDLOCK
ROLLBACK
CLUSTERED
IDENTITY
ROWCOUNT
COALESCE
IDENTITY_INSERT
ROWGUIDCOL
COLLATE
IDENTITYCOL
RULE
COLUMN
IF
SAVE
COMMIT
IN
SCHEMA
COMPUTE
INDEX
SELECT
CONSTRAINT
INNER
SESSION_USER
CONTAINS
INSERT
SET
CONTAINSTABLE
INTERSECT
SETUSER
CONTINUE
INTO
SHUTDOWN
CONVERT
IS
SOME
CREATE
JOIN
STATISTICS
CROSS
KEY
SYSTEM_USER
CURRENT
KILL
TABLE
CURRENT_DATE
LEFT
TEXTSIZE
CURRENT_TIME
LIKE
THEN
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
LINENO
TO
CURRENT_USER
LOAD
TOP
CURSOR
NATIONAL
TRAN
DATABASE
NOCHECK
TRANSACTION
DBCC
NONCLUSTERED
TRIGGER
DEALLOCATE
NOT
TRUNCATE
DECLARE
NULL
TSEQUAL
DEFAULT
NULLIF
UNION
DELETE
OF
UNIQUE
DENY
OFF
UPDATE
DESC
OFFSETS
UPDATETEXT
DISK
ON
USE
DISTINCT
OPEN
USER
DISTRIBUTED
OPENDATASOURCE
VALUES
DOUBLE
OPENQUERY
VARYING
DROP
OPENROWSET
VIEW
DUMMY
OPENXML
WAITFOR
DUMP
OPTION
WHEN
ELSE
OR
WHERE
END
ORDER
WHILE
ERRLVL
OUTER
WITH
ESCAPE
OVER
WRITETEXT

