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IBM Computer pioneer, dead at 79, revolutionized database system
Mercury News ^
| 4/20/03
| Lisa M. Krieger
Posted on 04/20/2003 8:09:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; 1stFreedom; Bush2000; PatrioticAmerican
I read my first Codd and Date book in 1988, a year after I got out of school as an EE. There wasn't a lot of hardware work going on at the time so I was a bit adrift. Then a guy at work gave me the book and asked me to help him with his dBase III project. My career and life where altered at that moment.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727) in: Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676
RIP
To: alnitak
319-hehe.
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posted on
04/21/2003 8:02:11 AM PDT
by
PatrioticAmerican
(If the only purpose of assault weapons is to kill lots of people quickly, why do police have them?)
To: PatrioticAmerican
#19 - hehe.
In 1985, I was introduced to SQL. We used it for tracking technical training programs at AF Space Command. I knew then it wasn't just a powerfully easy language, but one that could change the mainfame mentality. It certainly did.
Most people can't keep up in a conversation with smart people and denounce then as "flighty". Fortunately, this one man had an idea someone paid attention to.
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04/21/2003 8:06:29 AM PDT
by
PatrioticAmerican
(If the only purpose of assault weapons is to kill lots of people quickly, why do police have them?)
To: killermosquito
I wouldn't have a job today if it weren't for Codd.If it weren't for Codd's work, wouldn't we need even more computer people, to manage a huge number of crappy databases?
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04/21/2003 8:09:18 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: kezekiel
My old boss, who was trying to build a commission tracking system in a flat-file database, couldn't understand what I was talking about when I was trying to explain relational databases. When he got it, it was like the lights were turned on.There are a fair number of programmers, unfortunately, who simply can't envision relational data, and try to shoehorn everything into a flat-file format.
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04/21/2003 8:11:01 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(The White House can have my DNA when they pry it from my ... eh, never mind, let's not go there...)
To: Mr. K
It is text file transfer of data- nothing more... I totally agree - XML is 95% hype. Most of the same things could be done by any clever programmer with CSV files.
E.F. Codd was a giant - he will be missed.
To: dirtboy
There are a fair number of programmers, unfortunately, who simply can't envision relational data, and try to shoehorn everything into a flat-file format.I call them wannabe's...;-)
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posted on
04/21/2003 8:16:27 AM PDT
by
TomServo
To: Mr. Jeeves
and it could be done EASIER too, I bet...
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04/21/2003 8:42:50 AM PDT
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Mr. K
(I'm formidable with that)
To: NormsRevenge
Boyce-Codd Model?
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