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Tokens

Tokens are the basic syntactical units of the language. A token consists of one or more characters. A token can be an ordinary token or a delimiter token. The following table lists the different types of ordinary and delimiter tokens:

Ordinary Tokens

Delimiter Tokens

Numeric literal

String literal

Ordinary SQL identifier

Operator

Host identifier

Any special character shown in syntax diagrams

Keyword

Delimited SQL identifier