data manipulation language

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data manipulation language

A language that requests data from a DBMS. It is coded within the application program such as COBOL or C.

data manipulation language [′dad·ə mə‚nip·yə¦lā·shən ‚laŋ·gwij]

(computer science)

The interface between a data base and an applications program, which is embedded in the language of the applications program and provides the programmer with procedures for accessing data in the data base.

(language, database)

Data Manipulation Language - (DML, or Data Management Language) A language for the manipulation of data in a database by applications and/or directly by end-users.

SQL contains DML commands such as INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.

See also Data Definition Language (DDL).

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It provides a single language to access all databases by handling the translation of SQL commands into the proprietary data manipulation languages of the legacy DBMSs including DB2, ADABAS, CA-IDMS, CA-DATACOM/DB, IMS, VSAM, and MVS sequential files.

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quickly check database integrity without tying up system resources; - browse archived backups to recover data from individual tables; - regenerate Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements from the

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The object data manipulation language is based on the SQL3 data model.

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