What is Data Manipulation Language?

What is Data Manipulation Language?

Data Manipulation Language (DML) allows you to modify the database instance by inserting, modifying, and deleting its data. It is responsible for performing all types of data modification in a database.

There are three basic constructs which allow database program and user to enter data and information are:

Here are some important DML commands in SQL:

• INSERT
• UPDATE
• DELETE

INSERT:

This is a statement is a SQL query. This command is used to insert data into the row of a table.

Syntax:

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME  (col1, col2, col3,.... col N)  
VALUES (value1, value2, value3, .... valueN);  
Or 
INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME    
VALUES (value1, value2, value3, .... valueN);    

For example:

INSERT INTO students (RollNo, FIrstName, LastName) VALUES ('60', 'Tom', Erichsen');

UPDATE:

This command is used to update or modify the value of a column in the table.

Syntax:

UPDATE table_name SET [column_name1= value1,...column_nameN = valueN] [WHERE CONDITION]   

For example:

UPDATE students    
SET FirstName = 'Jhon', LastName= 'Wick' 
WHERE StudID = 3;

DELETE:

This command is used to remove one or more rows from a table.

Syntax:

DELETE FROM table_name [WHERE condition];  

For example:

DELETE FROM students 
WHERE FirstName = 'Jhon';