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by kragen 344 days ago
Codd was happy enough to tout SQL as "relational" in his Turing Award address! Maybe you mean Date? He was involved from early on but didn't invent it.

I do think that SQL falls short of the relational-data-bank ideal in a number of important ways, and I mostly agree with Date on them. I just don't agree with Date's saying he's not contradicting Codd's early work.