The Alpha language was the original database language proposed by
Edgar F. Codd
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational databa ...
, the inventor of the
relational database approach. It was defined in Codd's 1971 paper "A Data Base Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus". Alpha influenced the design of
QUEL. It was eventually supplanted by
SQL (which is however based on the
relational algebra
In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures with a well-founded semantics for modeling data, and defining queries on it. The theory was introduced by Edgar F. Codd.
The main application of relational algebr ...
defined by Codd in "Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages"
[Codd, E.F., "Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages", IBM Research Laboratory, RJ987, 1972.]), which
IBM developed for its first commercial relational database product.
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See also
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QUEL query languages
QUEL is a relational database query language, based on tuple relational calculus, with some similarities to SQL. It was created as a part of the Ingres DBMS effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but n ...
Query languages
Declarative programming languages
SQL
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