Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?
The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary programming language Feature In the fifty years since SQL was first proposed, it has become the dominant query language for working with relational databases. As such, it underpins the transactions vital to the workings of government, business and the world's economy. But like many standards, its path to global domination is not been a straight one, and in the early years of its gestation, the story could have been very different....