From the Back Cover
This book is the third in a series. Its predecessors, Relational Database: Selected Writings and Relational Database Writings 1985-1989, were published in 1986 and 1990, respectively.
Like its predecessor this book presents a collection of papers - many of them previously unpublished - on various aspects of relational technology.
Features
- Contains recent published papers on the relational model by the best-selling author in the field.
- Several papers previously unpublished.
- Hugh Darwen (the contributing author) will be familiar to readers of the previous book under his pen name Andrew Warden. Here he contributes papers as a well-known columnist in his own right.
- The third part of the book includes a very careful review and analysis of Codd's relational model (Versions 1 and 2).
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About the Author
C. J. Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database systems, a field he helped pioneer. Among other projects, he was involved in technical planning for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2. He is best known for his books, in particular, An Introduction to Database Systems (7th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000), the standard text in the field, which has sold well over half a million copies worldwide. Mr. Date is widely acknowledged for his ability to explain complex technical material in a clear and understandable fashion.
Hugh Darwen has been involved in software development since 1967 as an employee of IBM United Kingdom, Ltd. He has been active in the relational database arena since 1978. He was one of the chief architects and developers of an IBM relational product called Business System 12, a product that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model. He has been an active participant in the development of SQL international standards since 1988.
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