6.1.3 Characters permitted in SQL statements

1

Character string literals

All characters except for the character encoding X'00'

2

Other than above

• The following characters:

  Uppercase alphabetic characters (A to Z, #, @, \)

  Lowercase alphabetic characters (a to z)

  Numeric characters (0 to 9)

  space

  underscore character (_)

• The following special characters:

  Comma (,)

  Period (.)

  Hyphen or minus sign (-)

  Plus sign (+)

  Asterisk (*)

  Single quotation mark (')

  Double quotation mark (")

  Left parenthesis (()

  Right parenthesis ())

  Less than sign (<)

  Greater than sign (>)

  Equals sign (=)

  Circumflex (^)

  Exclamation mark (!)

  Forward slash (/)

  Question mark (?)

  Percent sign (%)

  Vertical bar (|)

  Left square bracket ([)

  Right square bracket (])

  Tab

  NL

  CR