Codd Publishes A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe paper's own header gives the issue and no day: Communications of the ACM, "Volume 13 / Number 6 / June, 1970". A month with no day is estimated at that month's last day.[1]
Ted Codd's paper in Communications of the ACM proposes storing data as relations queried by predicate logic, independent of how it is laid out on disk. It is the founding document of the relational database and of SQL.
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