This Page is dedicated to the memory of Dr.Edgar (Ted) Codd
Ted Codd, the 'Father of the Relational Database', died on April 18th.2003, in Williams Island,Florida.
We all owe him a tremendous debt for opening up a very interesting and challenging area of work.
In 1970, he published his Seminal paper, entitled 'The Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks'.
"Remembering Edgar Codd, IBM Fellow"
This is a link to a news item on the IBM Site, and it might change,
so if you find that it does not work, I would appreciate your letting me know.
From the Illinois Institute of technology.
Codd's approach is based on Relational Algebra and provides a sound theoretical foundation for creaitng Relatioanal Data Models, in contrast to the Object-Oriented approach.
