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In Chapter 3, we introduced the relational model and its peculiar terminology which is based on known mathematical concepts, particularly the theory of matrices. In Chapter 4, we adopted a Relational Database Language (RDL) in order to discuss high level database software — RDL has now been proposed by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) as the industry standard for the design of relational databases. The aim of this chapter is to present the relational architecture [Codd, 1970, 1972] independent of any available software (e.g SEQUEL [Chamberlin et al, 1976], INGRESS [Stonebraker et al, 1976], and RDL [ANSI, 1986]), standards, modules, commands, etc. The emphasis here is on set-theoretic manipulation of relational tables, and also how trees and networks can be represented adequately, within the framework of the relational architecture.
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Yannakoudakis, E.J. (1988). Relational Architecture. In: The Architectural Logic of Database Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1616-5_8
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