CHRISTOPHER J. DATE

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'Chris Date' (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant of international renown, specializing in relational database technology.

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Biography

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Biography

While working at IBM he was involved in technical planning and design for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2.
He was also involved with Edgar F. Codd's relational model for database management.
He left IBM in 1983 and has written extensively of the relational model, in association with Hugh Darwen.
His book ''An Introduction to Database Systems'', currently in its 8th edition, is widely regarded as the fundamental 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 data management.
Recently, Chris has caused some controversy with his espousal of the TransRelational model, for example in this debate.

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Chris Date is the author of several books, including:

★ ''An Introduction to Database Systems'', ISBN 0-321-19784-4

★ ''The Third Manifesto'' (with Hugh Darwen)

★ ''Temporal Data & the Relational Model'', ISBN 1-55860-855-9

★ '', ISBN 0-596-10012-4

★ Several editions of ''Relational Database Writings.'', ISBN 0-201-39814-1, ISBN 0-201-82459-0, ISBN 0-201-54303-6, ISBN 0-201-50881-8.
In recent years he has published articles with Fabian Pascal at Database Debunkings.

See also

★ Hugh Darwen

★ Nikos Lorentzos

★ David McGoveran

★ Fabian Pascal

★ Lex de Haan

★ Ivan Pellegrin

★ Peter Robson

External links

★ Some Articles by C.J. Date