We had been using Derby and just upgrade to and a DDL statement that used to work in Derby no longer works and complains about a syntax error . Here is the statement: create table JIDataType ( id bigint not null, type smallint, maxLength integer, decimals integer, regularExpr varchar(255), minValue varchar(255) for bit data, maxValue varchar(255) for bit data, strictMin smallint, strictMax smallint, primary key (id) ) and here is the error: Error: Syntax error: Encountered "minValue" at line 1, column 125. SQLState: 42X01 ErrorCode: -1 So did "minValue" become a reserved word? I cannot find anything like that in the documentation. Thanks for any help. Brett