ON | OFF Specifies whether or not SQL checks statements that use reserved words as identifiers. If you specify SET ANSI IDENTIFIERS ON, SQL checks statements for reserved words from the ANSI/ISO standard. You must enclose reserved words in double quotation marks to supply them as identifiers in SQL statements. If you do not, SQL issues an informational message after such statements when you enable reserved-word checking. For a list of the reserved words deprecated as identifiers, see the Oracle Rdb SQL Reference Manual. When you specify SET ANSI IDENTIFIERS OFF, SQL does not check identifiers. By default, SQL does not check identifiers.