Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for Productivity

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 109-117

  Codd, E F ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

data integrity; data manipulation; data structure; database; productivity; relational database; relational model

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0020089095     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358396.358400     Document Type: Article

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