Talk:Data manipulation language

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Merge

Recommend merging DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, SELECT, and TRUNCATE statements into DML article and redirecting these statements there. Please post comments here by 19 May 2007. SqlPac 05:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

>Why DML? It would make more sense for it to be merged with the SQL language, since they're all SQL keywords. I use this site a lot for my memory and as a syntax check for programming SQL. -Alexis

A new SQL DML article might be in order, but the SQL article itself, while it does discuss these keywords, covers a lot more material like the ISO SQL Standards, SQL extensions (SQL/CLI, SQL/XML, etc.), conformance, etc. I think the SQL article (already good sized), would grow very large if all these subsections, syntaxes, and code samples were added. My main concern is that these statements by themselves (DELETE, INSERT, ...) are far too small to really be made into full-blown good articles by themselves. I do think they would make one good article if combined somewhere though. What do you think? Thanks. SqlPac 14:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

>I agree that large articles make it frustrating for people to browse for pertinant information. I like the idea of an SQL DML article that combines all these. From what I saw, the DML article itself is fairly large already, also. If it combined these, then you'd have to combine others with it, as well. If they were all combined, would they still be searchable on their own from the search box? -Alexis