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VI. APPENDIXES > C. Historical Notes
History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.
This appendix presents a brief and not unbiased survey of some of the seminal research publications in the field of design theory. The publications in question are listed in chronological order, more or less.
The relational model as such had its origins in two landmark papers by Codd:
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E. F. Codd: “Derivability, Redundancy, and Consistency of Relations Stored in Large Data Banks,” IBM Research Report RJ599 (August 19th, 1969) and elsewhere.
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E. F. Codd: “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks,” CACM 13, No. 6 (June 1970); republished in Milestones of Research—Selected Papers 1958-1982 (CACM 25th Anniversary Issue), CACM 26, No. 1 (January 1983) and elsewhere.
