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31.
What is VDL (View Definition Language)?
It specifies user views and their mappings to the conceptual schema.
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What is SDL (Storage Definition Language)?
This language is to specify the internal schema. This language may specify the mapping between two schemas.
33.
What is Data Storage - Definition Language?
The storage structures and access methods used by database system are specified by a set of definition in a special type of DDL called data storage-definition language.
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What is DML (Data Manipulation Language)?
This language that enable user to access or manipulate data as organised by appropriate data model.
- Procedural DML or Low level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed and how to get those data.
- Non-Procedural DML or High level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed without specifying how to get those data.
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What is DML Compiler?
It translates DML statements in a query language into low-level instruction that the query evaluation engine can understand.