Re: which data model is better?

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1074297019.481864_at_yasure...
> Robert A.M. van Lopik wrote:
> > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> > news:1074291845.571279_at_yasure...
> >
> >
> >>In a relational database one should follow Cobb and Date unless there is
> >>a compelling reason not to.
> >
> >
> > Just for the record, shouldn't that be Ted CoDD? And with his
normalisation
> > theory being more than 30 years old by now, one wonders how it is
possible
> > that these questions are still being asked :-)
> >
> > rob van lopik
>
> And Chris Date. They coauthored the original paper.
>

To which paper are you referring? There is no reference to a coauthored paper by Codd and Date in Date's "An Introducton to Database Systems" (Third Edition, 1981).
And also in "The Third Manifesto" by Darwen and Date, SIGMOD Record, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1995) they give all credits to Codd alone.

rob van lopik

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