data manipulation language; DML
A computing term for a language used to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data in a database.
SQL is one of the typical data manipulation languages.
Data definition language (DDL) is used to define database structures, while data manipulation language (DML) is used to manipulate the data itself.
Compound of データ (data), 操作 (manipulation), and 言語 (language), a direct translation of the English computing term.