SR0012: Avoid using reserved words for type names

The name of a user-defined type includes a reserved word.

You should avoid using a reserved word as the name of a user-defined type because readers will have a harder time understanding your database code. You can use reserved words in SQL Server as identifiers and object names only if you use delimited identifiers. For a full list of reserved keywords, see this page on the Microsoft Web site: Reserved Keywords (Transact-SQL).

You must rename the user-defined type or object name. You can use database refactoring to easily replace all instances of the name throughout your database project. For more information, see Rename All References to a Database Object.

You might need to suppress this warning if an external application that you cannot change references the name.

The first example shows the definition for a user-defined type that will trigger this warning. The second example shows one way to correct the user-defined type and resolve the issue.

-- Potential misuse of a keyword as a type name
CREATE TYPE Alter
FROM varchar(11) NOT NULL ;

-- Corrected type name
CREATE TYPE AlterType
FROM varchar(11) NOT NULL ;

SR0011: Avoid using special characters in object names

SR0016: Avoid using sp_ as a prefix for stored procedures

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