Any of the following statements: o DECLARE ALIAS o DECLARE CURSOR o DECLARE STATEMENT o DECLARE TABLE o DECLARE TRANSACTION You must place all DECLARE statements in an SQL module together after the LANGUAGE clause of the module. All such DECLARE statements are optional. All the DECLARE statements except DECLARE TRANSACTION can be repeated. For each DECLARE CURSOR statement, however, there must be only one procedure in the SQL module that contains an OPEN statement that corresponds to the DECLARE CURSOR statement. Do not use any punctuation to separate DECLARE statements or to separate the declare-statement section from the procedure section.