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Introduction to Physical
Database Design
I have not lost my mind. It’s backed up on disk somewhere.
—Unknown
here was a great debate at the annual ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) meeting
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1974 between Ted Codd, the creator of the relational
database model, and Charlie Bachman, the technical creative mind behind the network
database model and the subsequent CODASYL report. The debate centered on which
logical model was the best database model, and it had continued on in the academic
journals and trade magazines for almost 30 more years until Codd’s death in 2003.
Since that original debate, many database systems have been built to support each of
these models, and although the relational model eventually dominated the database ...