What are DDL and DML?

Understanding the difference between DDL and DML in SQL

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
3 min readJul 15, 2022

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Structured Query Language (SQL) is the standard language used to design, access and manipulate databases. The language is often used to execute certain commands over the specified database.

In today’s article we discuss how the various SQL commands are divided into subcategories based on how they the affect…

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