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Presented by Chris Date
Time: Registration/Refreshments - 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Presentation
- 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Announcements
- 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Location: Menlo WorldWide - Freemont Conference Room
The foundation of the database field is, of course, the relational model. Sad to say, however, there are some in the database community - certainly in industry, and to some extent in academia also - who don't seem to be familiar with that model as they ought to be; there are others who seem to think it isn't very interesting or relevant to the day-to-day business of earning a living; and there are still others who seem to think all of the foundation-level problems have been solved. Indeed, there seems to be a widespread feeling that "the world has moved on," so to speak, and the relational model as such is somehow passé. In my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth! In this presentation, I want to sketch the results of some of my own investigations into database foundations over the past thirty years of so; my aim is to convey some of the excitement and abiding interest that is still to be found in those investigations, with a view - I hope - to inspiring others in the field to become involved in such activities.
C. J. Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology (a field he helped pioneer). Before leaving IBM in 1983, he was involved in technical planning and design for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2. His book An Introduction to Database Systems, currently in its 8th edition, is the standard text on the subject; it has sold well over 700,000 copies not counting translations and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also the author of many other books on database management, including in particular Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto (2nd edition 2000, with Hugh Darwen) and Temporal Data and the Relational Model (2003, with Hugh Darwen and Nikos A. Lorentzos).
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