The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics - Contents

• Preface
• Remembrances
  • Ray Boyce
  • Vera Watson
  • Morton Astrahan
• The Birth of SQL
  • Prehistory
  • System R
  • Spreading the word
• IBM products
  • SQL/DS
  • Shoot-out at the OK Corral
  • System R winds down
  • VS/QUERY (QMF)
  • DB2
• System R folks leave the fold
  • Esvel
  • Tandem
  • Oracle
• And the rest
  • Intergalactic dataspeak: SQL standard, Open SQL, ODBC, DRDA
  • Teradata; Ingres family: Relational Technology, Britton-Lee, Sybase, Microsoft
  • Informix
• Index