Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: E.F. Codd and the Relational Model
Summary: Send this to Richard Pick
Message-ID: <946@vsi.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 88 01:34:06 GMT
References: <15212@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <666@ihnet.ATT.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <666@ihnet.ATT.COM>, beyer@ihnet.ATT.COM (Dave Beyerl) writes:
< 
< 	The Computerworld article in which Codd presented his 12 rules
< is titled "Is your DBMS really relational?" and was published in two
< parts.  The first appeared in a supplement to the October 14, 1985 issue,
< pages ID/1-ID/9 and the second appeared in the October 21, 1985 issue,
< pages 49-60.

Somebody should send this to Dick Pick of Pick Systems.  He
insists up and down that Pick is relational, and he dismisses
as "academic types" those who disagree.

     Steve

P.S. - Hint: Pick has nonatomic attributes

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