Edgar F. Codd

A Brit with math and chemistry degrees from Oxford University, Codd emigrated to the U.S. after World War II, where he found work with IBM. After earning a doctorate, he transferred to IBM's San Jose, Calif., facility and started working with data management systems. He found the existing systems were "seat-of-the-pants, with no theory at all" behind them, he once said. "I began reading documentation and I was disgusted." He decided to do something about it, and in 1970 proposed a new solution based on math. His "relational data base" model, which not only stored information more efficiently but allowed easier access to different combinations of data, was ignored at first, but IBM's "SQL/DS" was finally introduced in 1981. The new model really hit the big time in 1986, when Oracle released its data base solution, making founder Larry Ellison a billionaire. Codd died of heart failure at his home in Williams Island, Fla., on April 18. He was 79. From This is True for 20 April 2003 Suggestions for further reading: Access 2007: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald Amazon Price: $23.09 Customer Review: This is one of the best text books that I have ever used. For a novice or an experienced user, this book will help you to explore the various tools available with the 2007 version of Access. And with the downloadable examples, it is very easy to see ...   Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd Edition) by Ben Forta Amazon Price: $13.59 Customer Review: I am not kidding when I say I knew NOTHING about SQL prior to getting this book. Every chapter has been REAL. The information is clean, direct, and the language is level-headed. Ben Forta really targeted the novice and inexperienced SQ...   Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming (Pro-Developer) by Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Roger Wolter, Greg Low, Ed Katibah, Isaac Kunen Amazon Price: $31.49 Customer Review: Being primarily a database and web developer, I feel more than experienced enough to review 'Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming' by Itzik Ben-Gan and others and I feel more and easily able to give this ***** and highly recommend this...   Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Micro... by Scott Cameron Amazon Price: $31.49 Customer Review: I just finished this book and I am really impressed with it -- It was very well written: the chapters are very organized from beginning to end; it is very easy to follow and you get to practice in each sub-section as you go, steps by steps just like ...   Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald Amazon Price: $26.39   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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