JDBC provides a way of smoothing out some of the differences in the ways different DBMS vendors implement SQL. This is called escape syntax.
Escape syntax signals that the JDBC driver, which is provided by a particular vendor, scans for any escape syntax and converts it into the code that the particular database understands. This makes escape syntax DBMS-independent.
A JDBC escape clause begins and ends with curly braces. A keyword always follows the opening curly brace:
{ keyword }
The JDBC escape keywords are case-insensitive.