DML Statements (SQL Server Compact)

Microsoft SQL Server Compact supports Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements.

Supported DML Statements

The following tables lists the DML statements that SQL Server Compact supports.

Statement

Function

INSERT

Adds a new row to a table.

UPDATE

Changes existing data in a table.

DELETE

Removes rows from a table.

To delimit identifiers that are keywords or do not conform to the rules for identifiers, you must use double quotation marks in SQL Server Compact. Brackets are not supported.