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The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review And Analysis: A Historical Account And Assessment Of E. F. Codd's Contribution To The Field Of Database Technology
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C.J. Date
The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis is a retrospective of E.F. Codd's original ideas in which C.J. Date revisits the original papers, highlights their critical contributions to the basis of relational database management systems, and discusses the current day applications of these ideas. Codd's relational model, first presented to the world i
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Published
May 15th 2000
by Addison Wesley
(first published May 5th 2000)
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This book is a thinly veiled critique, rather than review, of Codd’s seminal works. In place of direct quotes from Codd, we are left with Date’s paraphrasing. Of the 61 bibliographic references given, 27 are to Date’s own work and 2 are to pieces that he published jointly.
The book wastes a good amount of text on introspective commentary of the form: now I’m going to discuss… so I have discussed… as I previously discussed. This style might be understandable in the magazine articles from which th ...more
The book wastes a good amount of text on introspective commentary of the form: now I’m going to discuss… so I have discussed… as I previously discussed. This style might be understandable in the magazine articles from which th ...more
It seemed to be a heavy mixture of criticism and egoism wrapped around the relational model definition of more than 40 years ago. I like the mathematical definition of the RM, but that credit can go to Codd, not Date. I'm sure this is a valuable critique to some...
Good reading for in-depth database design. I refer back to it quite often!
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Christopher J. Date (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory.
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