SQL statement: overview 

All SQL statements can be embedded in programming languages. Further information is available in the precompiler documentation. All SQL statements, with the exception of NEXT STAMP, can be specified interactively.

Comments can be specified for every SQL statement.

SQL statements for data definition

CREATE TABLE statement

DROP TABLE statement

ALTER TABLE statement

RENAME TABLE statement

RENAME COLUMN statement

EXISTS TABLE statement

CREATE DOMAIN statement

DROP DOMAIN statement

 

CREATE SEQUENCE statement

DROP SEQUENCE statement

 

CREATE SYNONYM statement

DROP SYNONYM statement

RENAME SYNONYM statement

CREATE VIEW statement

DROP VIEW statement

RENAME VIEW statement

CREATE INDEX statement

DROP INDEX statement

ALTER INDEX statement

RENAME INDEX statement

COMMENT ON statement

   

CREATE TRIGGER statement

DROP TRIGGER statement

 

CREATE DBPROC statement

DROP DBPROC statement

 

 

SQL statements for authorization

CREATE USER statement

DROP USER statement

ALTER USER statement

RENAME USER statement

GRANT USER statement

CREATE USERGROUP statement

DROP USERGROUP statement

ALTER USERGROUP statement

RENAME USERGROUP statement

GRANT USERGROUP statement

CREATE ROLE statement

DROP ROLE statement

 

ALTER PASSWORD statement

GRANT statement

REVOKE statement

 

SQL statements for data manipulation

INSERT statement

UPDATE statement

DELETE statement

NEXT STAMP statement

CALL statement

 

 

SQL statements for data query

QUERY statement

SINGLE SELECT statement

EXPLAIN statement

SELECT DIRECT statement: searched

SELECT DIRECT statement: positioned

 

SELECT ORDERED statement: searched

SELECT ORDERED statement: positioned

 

OPEN CURSOR statement

FETCH statement

CLOSE statement

 

SQL statements for transaction management

CONNECT statement

SET statement

 

COMMIT statement

ROLLBACK statement

SUBTRANS statement

LOCK statement

UNLOCK statement

RELEASE statement

 

SQL statements for statistics management

UPDATE STATISTICS statement

MONITOR statement