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SQL Alive

SQL
KindProgramming language
Appeared1974
StatusAlive
CreatorChamberlin & Boyce / IBM
FamilySQL
Sourcedl.acm.org ↗

SEQUEL renamed — declarative queries over Codd's relational model, standardized into the single most-used programming language on Earth.

Created by IBM Don Chamberlin Ray Boyce

Chamberlin and Boyce's SEQUEL (1974) — renamed SQL — implemented Codd's relational algebra in English-like form: SELECT FROM WHERE. IBM's System R proved it; Oracle shipped it first in 1979.\n\nANSI standardized it in 1986; it is now the universal data language — every database, every ORM, every data tool either speaks it or translates to it.

Sources

  1. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800088.802140
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL