An SQL query that contains Data Definition Language (DDL) statements. These are statements that allow you to create or alter objects (such as tables, indexes, views, and so on) in the database and to migrate database objects from Microsoft Access.

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data-definition query

An SQL-specific query that can create, alter, or delete a table, or create or delete an index in a database.