Level 2: History of Structured Query Language (SQL)

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Level 2: History of Structured Query Language (SQL)

Greg Larsen

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September 2, 2011 at 12:03 pm

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martink-1041194 SSC Journeyman Points: 75 More actions · Answer 1

Thank you kindly for this series.

On

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stairway+Series/75772/#

the link to

Level 3: Relational Database Design

which should be

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stairway+Series/75775/#

is actually to

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stairway+Series/75774/#

which is

Level 2: History of Structured Query Language (SQL)

For some reason the dates at the bottom are two weeks to the future eg today is 2011/09/07 and the date on

Stairway to T-SQL Level 2: History of Structured Query Language (SQL)

is By Gregory Larsen, 2011/10/21

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maroon-78 Ten Centuries Points: 1014 More actions · Answer 2

glad you mentioned Relational, Inc. Otherwise one would get the impression that M$ invented everything that is in the current Sql standard. Especially now that Sql Server 2008 is more like Oracle 10/11 than ever, which is actually a good thing.

Duncan Tilley Right there with Babe Points: 764 More actions · Answer 3

i may be wrong about this, but I thought Sytem/38 was an operating system for IBM minicomputers

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Jon Russell

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October 21, 2011 at 1:45 pm

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Thank you, Greg. I enjoyed this.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003530 More actions · Answer 5

jberg-604007 (10/21/2011)
Especially now that Sql Server 2008 is more like Oracle 10/11 than ever, which is actually a good thing.

Since I have a primordial hatred for Oracle, I'll have to strongly disagree with that notion. 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

webrunner SSC-Dedicated Points: 31598 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks for this Stairway!

I would add only a couple of references - background for the Relational Model:

Edgar F. Codd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd

Codd, E. F. (1970). "A relational model of data for large shared data banks" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 13 (6): 377. doi:10.1145/362384.362685.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

- webrunner

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