SQL includes a sub-language for defining schemas, the data definition language (DDL), along with a sub-language for modifying data, the data manipulation language (DML).

"It has familiar data definition language (DDL), data manipulation language (DML) and query language statements, yet it works on NoSQL database features such as key-value stores, multi-value ...

For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage. Here’s to the next fifty years of innovation around data in our businesses.

For decades, users of SQL Server have requested a feature to capture historical change information and tracking for SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) changes and changes to the data itself.