| English | French |
| conceptual schema definition language | Conceptual Schema Definition Language (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a conceptual model) |
| data definition language A language that defines all attributes and properties of a database, especially record layouts, field definitions, key fields, file locations, and storage strategy | langage de définition de données (DDL) |
| Report Definition Language A set of instructions that describe layout and query information for a report. RDL is composed of XML elements that conform to an XML grammar created for Reporting Services | RDL (Report Definition Language) |
| store schema definition language | Store Schema Definition Language (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a storage model, often corresponding to a database schema) |
| XML schema definition language | langage de définition de schéma XML (The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element)) |