Edgar F. Codd's Relational Model Paper Published

IBM researcher Edgar F. Codd published his seminal paper, 'A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks,' in Communications of the ACM.

Significance

This paper laid the theoretical and mathematical foundation for all modern relational databases, proposing a revolutionary paradigm for data organization that offered unprecedented flexibility and data independence.

Key facts

Date
1970-06-01
Type
invention
Location
IBM Research, San Jose, California