Delimiters

A delimiter is used to separate the lexical units in the language for compiler processing. Delimiters are either spaces, control characters, comments or special tokens. A comment must be preceded by double hyphens (--).

The following symbols are used as special tokens in SQL:

 

,

()

<

>

.

:

=

+

-

*

<>

<=

>=

/

;

?

~>

~<

~=

"