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"Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> said:

> 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.
>

Next week, at IOUGA, I'll have to remember to toast his memory.

--Glenn

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