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:I strongly agree with Mhkay:

:In SQL:2023 it's in the SQL ''data change statement'' category according to [https://standards.iso.org/iso-iec/9075/-2/ed-6/en/ISO_IEC_9075-2(E)_Foundation.bnf.txt][Https://standards.iso.org/iso-iec/9075/-2/ed-6/en/ISO IEC 9075-2(E) Foundation.bnf.txt https://standards.iso.org/iso-iec/9075/-2/ed-6/en/ISO_IEC_9075-2(E)_Foundation.bnf.txt], i.e. a DML statement.

: Furthermore, I have been communicating about this with someone who has access to the ISO standard. He states:

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: So I'm going to change the article.

: [[User:Troels Arvin|Troels Arvin]] ([[User talk:Troels Arvin|talk]]) 14:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

::Just to add weight to Troels' point. Although the ISO SQL standard does not use the term DML it does put TRUNCATE under Chapter 14 Data Manipulation, along with all the other "DML" statements and separate from the Schema Definition statements in Chapter 11. A few, but not all, database vendors have historically chosen to describe TRUNCATE as "data definition" statements because that suited their own agendas. The ISO standard ought to be the basis for a NPOV. [[User:Oradium|Oradium]] ([[User talk:Oradium|talk]]) 14:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)