Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz

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Historical Notes

C. J. Date¹ 

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Healdsburg, California, USA

 

History is not what you thought.

It is what you can remember.

—W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman:1066 and All That (1930)

This appendix presents a brief and not unbiased survey of some of the seminal research publications in the field of design theory. The publications in question are listed in chronological order, more or less.

The relational model as such has its origins in two landmark papers by Codd:

• E. F. Codd: “Derivability, Redundancy, and Consistency of Relations Stored in Large Data Banks,” IBM Research Report RJ599 (August 19th, 1969) and elsewhere

• E. F. Codd: “A Relational ...