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Re: [HACKERS] "DML"

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>

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From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Cc: tomg@nrnet.org, dhogaza@pacifier.com, lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, vadim@krs.ru, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-06-12T02:56:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Thus spake D'Arcy J.M. Cain
> Thus spake Thomas Good
> > I'm not sure why they originally split up SQL but I know this:
> 
> Actually, I think it was the other way around.  The term SQL didn't
> come into use until DDL, DML and DCL had been in common use.  I'm
> pretty sure Date didn't mention SQL in his original paper.

Oops.  That would be E.F. Codd, not Chris Date.

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