A Database Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/Codd71,
  author    = {E. F. Codd},
  editor    = {E. F. Codd and
               A. L. Dean},
  title     = {A Database Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 1971 ACM-SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description,
               Access and Control, San Diego, California, November 11-12, 1971},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1971},
  pages     = {35-68},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigmod/Codd71.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/71},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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