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Codd’s Normal Forms and the Discipline of Removing Redundancy
E. F. Codd's normal forms turned database redundancy from a vague design smell into a sequence of structural conditions tied to dependencies, update anomalies, and decomposition.
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Tag: relational-databases
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Oracle and the Commercialization of the Relational Database
Oracle helped turn relational theory and SQL from research ideas into a commercial software business, shipping Oracle V2 in 1979 and pursuing portability across computing platforms.
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IBM DB2 and the Mainframe Future of SQL
IBM DB2 carried the relational model and SQL into the mainframe center of enterprise computing, proving that relational databases could support large, mission-critical transaction workloads.
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