E. F. Codd

"The most important motivation for the research work that resulted in the relational model was the objective of providing a sharp and clear boundary between the logical and physical aspects of database…"

"I could imagine how those queries would have been represented in CODASYL by programs that were five pages long that would navigate through this labyrinth of pointers and stuff. Codd would sort of writ…"

"The adverse impact on development productivity of requiring programmers to navigate along access paths to reach target data was enormous. In addition, it was not possible to make slight changes in the…"

"At the time, Nixon was normalizing relations with China. I figured that if he could normalize relations, then so could I."

"It is no surprise that attempts such as those of CODASYL and ANSI to develop data structure language and data manipulation language in separate communities have yielded many misunderstandings and inco…"

"For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems. He originated the relational approach to database management in a series of research papers …"

"Relational processing entails treating whole relationships as operands. Its primary purpose is loop-avoidance, an absolute requirement for end users to be productive at all, and a clear productivity b…"