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Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. Codd
Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003)

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd 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. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model, a very influential general theory of data management, remains his most mentioned, analyzed and celebrated achievement.

19 August 1923

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