Early History of SQL

@article{Chamberlin2012EarlyHO,
  title={Early History of SQL},
  author={Donald D. Chamberlin},
  journal={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
  year={2012},
  volume={34},
  pages={78 - 82}
}
  • D. Chamberlin
  • Published 1 October 2012
  • Computer Science
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
One of the most important research areas in computer science in the early 1970s was the development of systems and languages for handling what computer scientists call persistent data. This term denotes data that remains in a computer system indefinitely, until it is explicitly deleted. Systems for managing persistent data were spreading quickly in the business world. A database management language proposed by the Codasyl Data Base Task Group (DBTG) was receiving a lot of attention. In this… 
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