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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.

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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.