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We present a short history of databases including the hierarchical model, the network model and the relational model. We discuss the relational model as developed by Codd at IBM in more detail, as most databases used today are relational. There is a short discussion on the SQL query language and on the Oracle database
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The CODASYL committee is the group that defined and standardised the COBOL programming language. It was also involved in work in standardising database interfaces.
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O’Regan, G. (2018). Overview of Databases. In: World of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75844-2_11
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