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ALPHA(ID:4471/alp008)

Data-query language based on relational calculus 

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Country: United States
Designed 1971
Sammet category: Business Data Processing

Codd's first DB language, which was based on the predicate calculus: used relational calculus with an interactive text-based interface


Codd, IBM 1971

People:
Related languages
QL/I → ALPHA   Influence
Relational Calculus → ALPHA   Based on
ALPHA → Aldat   Influence
ALPHA → HYPOL   Incorporated into
References:
  • Codd, E.F. (1971) Codd, E.F. "A database sublanguage founded on the relational calculus" pp35-68
          in [ACM] (1971) [ACM] Proceedings on the ACM SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access, and Control, San Diego, California (November 1971)
  • Codd, E.F., (1971) Codd, E.F., "A Data Base Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus", Report RO 893, IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, Calif. (July 1971).
          in [ACM] (1971) [ACM] Proceedings on the ACM SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access, and Control, San Diego, California (November 1971)
  • Leavenworth and Sammet (1974) Leavenworth, Burt M.; Sammet, Jean E. "An overview of nonprocedural languages" pp1-12 Abstract
          in [VHLL 1974] (1974) Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages, March 28-29, 1974, Santa Monica, California, United States
  • Prakash, Naveen and Sharma, Y. K. (1979) Prakash, Naveen and Sharma, Y. K. "An integrated data base language" pp82-96 Extract: Introduction
          in [SIGPLAN] (1979) SIGPLAN Notices 14(07) July 1979
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