The Relational Model
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The relational model, proposed by Edgar F. Codd of IBM Research in 1970, bases data on the relation — a set-theory concept — rows as tuples, column headers as attributes.
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A half-century of dominant database practice descends from one research paper.
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The mathematics came first; the tables are its costume.