SQL Statements: How They're Commonly Grouped 🗂️ Ever seen SQL statements sorted into DDL, DML, DCL, TCL, and DQL and wondered what that actually means? These are informal teaching categories, not a rule from the SQL standard, that group statements by what they do: 🔹 DDL (Data Definition) — CREATE, ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE* 🔹 DML (Data Manipulation) — INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE* 🔹 DCL (Data Control) — GRANT, REVOKE 🔹 TCL (Transaction Control) — COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SAVEPOINT 🔹 DQL (Data Query)