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SQL programmingYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Guide to SQL: SyntaxThe HCL OneDB™ Guide to SQL: Syntax describes the syntax of the statements, data types, expressions, operators, and built-in functions of the HCL OneDB™ dialect of the SQL language.
Other syntax segmentsThese topics describe syntax segments, which are language elements, such as database object names or optimizer directives, that appear as a subdiagram reference in the syntax diagrams of some SQL or SPL statements.
IdentifierAn identifier specifies the unqualified name of a database object, such as an access method, aggregate, alias, blobspace, cast, column, constraint, correlation, data type, index, operator class, partition, procedure, table, trigger, sequence, synonym, or view. Use the Identifier segment whenever you see a reference to an identifier in a syntax diagram.
Using keywords as table namesThe database server issues an error in contexts where the unqualified identifier of a table object is also a valid keyword of SQL. You can disambiguate the table name by qualifying it with the authorization identifier of the owner of the table.
Using CURRENT, DATETIME, INTERVAL, and NULL in INSERT

Using CURRENT, DATETIME, INTERVAL, and NULL in INSERT

A UDR cannot insert a variable that was declared using the CURRENT, DATETIME, INTERVAL, or NULL keywords as the name. For example, if you declare a variable called null, when you try to insert the value null into a column, you receive a syntax error, as the following example shows:

CREATE PROCEDURE problem()
. . .
DEFINE null INT;
LET null = 3;
INSERT INTO tab VALUES (null); -- error, inserts NULL, not 3