FATHER OF RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL HAS DIED

FATHER OF RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL HAS DIED | Mercury News

The father of the relational database model is dead. Edgar F. Codd, a former IBMer, died over the weekend. He was 79. Before Codd's 1970 research paper laying out the principles of the relational model, analyzing large amounts of data was difficult.

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