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Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational database management systems.
Edgar F. “Ted” Codd was a mathematician and computer scientist best known for his trailblazing work on the relational model that led to the multibillion-dollar database industry. The revolutionary power of relational databases is taken for granted today, but in 1970 the concept was merely theoretical.
May 10, 2024 · Edgar Frank Codd, British-born American computer scientist and mathematician who devised the ‘relational’ data model, which led to the creation of the relational database, a standard method of retrieving and storing computer data.
- William L. Hosch
Apr 23, 2003 · Edgar F. Codd, a mathematician and computer scientist who laid the theoretical foundation for relational databases, the standard method by which information is organized in and retrieved from...
Learn about the life and achievements of Edgar F. Codd, the inventor of the relational model of data and the father of database theory. Explore his biography, bibliography, and citations for his contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems.
Codd's twelve rules are a set of thirteen rules (numbered zero to twelve) proposed by Edgar F. Codd, a pioneer of the relational model for databases, designed to define what is required from a database management system in order for it to be considered relational, i.e., a relational database management system (RDBMS).
Biography. Edgar Frank Codd was born the youngest of seven children in Portland Bill, in Dorset, England, in 1923. His father was a leather manufacturer, his mother a schoolteacher. He attended Oxford University on a full scholarship, studying mathematics and chemistry.
