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DML (Data Manipulation Language) is the language component responsible for manipulating data within a database. This includes the operations you mentioned:

Querying data: Retrieving information from the database.

Inserting data: Adding new records to the database.

Deleting data: Removing existing records from the database.

Altering data: Modifying the values of existing records.

Brief overview of other options:

DDL (Data Definition Language): Defines the structure of the database, including creating, modifying, and dropping tables, indexes, and other database objects.

DCL (Data Control Language): Deals with access control to the database, granting or revoking privileges to users.

TCL (Transaction Control Language): Manages the integrity and consistency of data through transactions (commit, rollback, savepoint).

So, DML is the correct choice for performing actions on the data itself.