Re: [HACKERS] "DML"

D. Jay Newman <jay@sprucegrove.com>

From: "D. Jay Newman" <jay@sprucegrove.com>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas Lockhart), hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-06-11T16:46:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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>Hmm. Thanks to Don and Jay for a definition. The def ("Data
>Manipulation Language") was what I thought, but I find it confusing
>that it is used to refer to a subset of "SQL", which also has
>"Language" in the acronym.

NO!!!! SQL doesn't stand for *anything*! (Though common practice calls
it Structured Query Language, it was officially called SQL because the
original name of the language was copyrighted.)

SQL is composed of three languages (DML, DDL -- Data Definition Language,
and some TLA that I've forgotten).

(OK, I admit to being persnickity about this.)  :)
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