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

A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I , J , K , L , M , N , O , P , Q , R , S , T , U , V , W , X , Y , Z

A

• ADABAS [1]
• ALLBASE [1]
• Altman, Ed [1]
• Ampersand [1] [2]
• Annapurna [1]
• ASK [1]
• Astrahan, Morton
  • first author [1]
  • Phase Zero [1]
  • remembered [1]
• AT&T [1]
• Auslander, Marc [1]

B

• B-trees [1]
• Bachman
  • Information Systems [1]
  • C.W. [1] [2]
• Bacon, Glenn [1]
• Baker, Jerry [1] [2]
• Bank of America [1]
• Berkeley
  • alumni who worked on System R [1]
  • INGRES project [1] [2]
• Bjørner, Dines [1]
• Blasgen, Mike
  • implemented ET1 benchmark on System R [1]
• Blasgen, Mike:managed
  • Database Systems [1]
  • RSS [1]
• Blasgen, Mike
  • moved to Washington DC [1]
  • Rio trip [1]
  • sold System R to Santa Teresa [1]
  • worked on FS [1]
  • wrote System R index component [1]
• Blasgen, Sharon (wife of Mike)
  • moved to Washington, DC [1]
  • Rio trip [1]
  • suppressed press release [1]
• Boeing Aircraft [1]
• Borr, Andrea [1]
• Boyce, Ray
  • at Yorktown [1]
  • Boyce-Codd Normal Form [1]
  • remembered [1]
• Britton-Lee, Incorporated
  • database machine [1]
  • origins [1]
  • predecessor of Sybase [1]
  • successor of Ingres [1]

C

• Cambridge Scientific Center
  • built NEMIS on Phase Zero prototype [1]
  • developed RM, XRM [1]
  • installed System R [1]
  • origin of shadow pages [1]
  • XRM used by Phase Zero prototype [1]
• Case, Dick
  • George Radin's boss [1]
  • SQL/QBE shoot-out [1]
• Catalyst [1]
• Chamberlin, Don
  • at Yorktown [1]
  • Query Game [1]
  • RDS [1]
  • SEQUEL [1]
  • SQUARE [1]
• Chandra, Ashok [1]
• CICS [1]
• CODASYL [1]
• Codd, Ted:1970 CACM paper [1] [2]
• Codd, Ted
  • appointed IBM Fellow [1]
  • Boyce-Codd Normal Form [1]
  • Codd-Bachman debate [1]
  • GAMMA-0 [1]
  • NULL [1]
  • provinces [1]
  • System R [1]
  • Yorktown symposium [1]
• Compare-and-Swap [1]
• compiling queries [1] [2]
• Computer Associates International, Inc. [1]
• Cooperative Solutions [1]
• Crus, Dick [1]
• Crystal [1]
• Cullinet [1]

D

• Damerau, Fred [1]
• Database Task Group [1]
• Date, Chris [1]
• Daudenarde, Jean-Jacques [1]
• Dawn Treader [1]
• DB-Library [1]
• DB2
  • Bob Jolls [1]
  • John Nauman [1]
  • Josephine Cheng [1]
  • OLTP [1]
  • origins [1]
  • Plan B [1]
  • Roger Miller [1]
• DBTG
  • Codd-Bachman debate [1]
  • pointer-based implementation [1]
  • pre-System R experience [1]
  • standardization effort [1]
• de Jong, Peter [1]
• Deckert, Ken [1]
• DIAM [1]
• Digital Equipment Corporation [1]
• Ding, Ignatius [1]
• DOS DL/1 [1] [2]
• Doughty, Jane [1]
• DRDA [1] [2]
• DSL/Alpha [1]

E

• Eagle
  • ET1 benchmark [1]
  • Jim Gray's participation [1]
  • origins [1] [2]
  • Plan B [1]
  • preoccupied management [1]
• Eaton, Jim [1]
• Ellipse [1]
• Ellison, Larry:early
  • Oracle demo [1]
  • strategy [1]
• Ellison, Larry
  • financial success [1]
• Ellison, Larry:interviewed
  • Don Slutz [1]
  • Franco Putzolu [1]
  • Roger Bamford [1]
• Ellison, Larry
  • read SEQUEL paper [1]
  • System R error codes [1]
• Endicott
  • naming conventions [1]
  • SQL/DS [1]
• Engles, Bob
  • DB2 DL/1 support [1]
  • remembered [1]
  • SQL standard [1]
• Epstein, Bob [1]
• Esvel [1]
• Eswaran, Kapali
  • Esvel [1]
  • hired at San Jose [1]
• ET1 benchmark [1]
• Evans, Bob [1] [2]
• EXPRESS [1]

F

• Fagin, Ron [1]
• Fehder, Paul [1]
• Feigin, Stu [1]
• Feldman, Jerry [1]
• FNEXT [1]
• Frame, Jim [1]
• FS
  • attack of killer minis [1]
  • concurrent with System R [1]
  • it's real attractive, but don't do it [1]
  • most expensive development failure in IBM's history [1]
  • second-system effect [1]
  • termination triggered DB2 [1]
• FULIST [1]
• Future System [1]

G

• GAMMA-0
  • concurrency [1]
  • early relational systems [1]
  • origins [1]
  • pointer-based implementation [1]
• General Automation [1]
• Gomory, Ralph [1] [2]
  [3]
• Gray, Jim
  • Anon et al. [1]
  • assigned to Palo Alto [1]
  • concurrency [1]
  • it's real attractive, but don't do it [1]
  • MIPS Envy [1]
  • NonStop SQL [1]
  • ODBC [1]
  • Open SQL [1]
• GRID [1]
• Gumaer, Bob [1]

H

• Haas, Gary [1]
• Haderle, Don [1] [2]
• Halloween problem [1]
• Harper, Lloyd [1]
• Harrison [1]
• Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company [1]
• Hawthorn, Paula [1]
• Heller, Andy
  • Santa Teresa [1]
  • VSS recovery [1]
• Hoover Dam [1]
• HP [1]
• HTTP [1]
• Hursley Prototype [1]
• Hurwitz, Alex [1]

I

• IAP [1]
• IDL [1]
• IDMS/SQL [1]
• IMS:at Yorktown [1] [2]
• IMS
  • attack of killer minis [1]
  • cash cow [1] [2]
  • contrasted with DBTG [1]
  • emulation on RSS [1]
  • ET1 benchmark [1]
  • Frank King's 1980 speech [1]
  • pointer-based implementation [1]
• IMS:predecessor of
  • Ampersand [1]
  • Eagle [1] [2]
  • VSS [1]
• IMS
  • Santa Teresa's plan to replace it [1]
  • support in DB2 [1]
  • the tower next door [1]
• Informix [1]
• INGRES:origins [1] [2]
• Ingres:predecessor of
  • Britton-Lee [1]
  • Sybase [1]
• INGRES:strained relationship with System R [1]
• intergalactic dataspeak [1]

J

• Jackson, Bob [1]
• Jacob, John Paul [1]
• joint studies [1]
• Jolls, Bob
  • DB2 [1]
  • SQL/DS [1]
  • VS/QUERY [1]

K

• Karp & Miller [1]
• Katz, Randy [1]
• King,
  • Frances (wife of Frank) [1]
• King, Frank
  • 1980 speech [1]
  • at Yorktown [1]
  • came to San Jose [1]
  • IMS support in DB2 [1]
  • joint studies [1]
  • System R error codes [1]
• Kornelis, Sid:DB2
  • Data Manager [1]
  • DL/1 support [1]

L

• La Hacienda [1]
• Leonard, Homer [1]
• Lindsay, Bruce
  • Endicott naming conventions [1]
  • found Franco Putzolu's only RSS bug [1]
  • SYSTERR [1]
• Liu, Leonard
  • against publishing SQL [1]
  • brought Franco Putzolu to San Jose [1]
  • came to San Jose [1]
  • fire and brimstone [1]
  • managed Computer Science Department [1]
  • promoted to Director [1]
  • recruited Don Chamberlin [1]
• locks:in
  • DB2 [1]
  • Informix [1]
  • NonStop SQL [1]
  • Oracle [1]
  • RSS [1]
• locks:predicate locks [1]
• Lorie, Raymond
  • compiling queries [1]
  • RM and XRM [1]
  • shadow paging [1]

M

• Madrid, Louise:at
  • Britton-Lee [1]
  • Tandem [1]
• Malkemus, Tim [1]
• McCarthy, John [1]
• McEvoy, Dennis [1]
• MDS [1]
• Microsoft
  • ODBC [1]
  • SQL Server [1]
• Miner, Bob [1]
• Mohansic [1]
• Mortenson, John [1]
• MVS
  • DB2 [1]
  • Esvel port [1]
  • FS terminated [1]
  • ODBC driver [1]
  • System R port [1]

N

• naming conventions [1]
• NCR [1]
• Neches, Phil [1]
• New York Mafia [1]
• Nomm, Nick [1]
• NonStop SQL
  • hindered by Rainbow [1]
  • released [1]
• NULL [1]

O

• Oates, Ed [1]
• ODBC [1]
• Oehler, Rich [1]
• OK Corral [1]
• one-liners [1]
• Open SQL [1]
• Oracle Corporation
  • Franco Putzolu's first interview [1]
  • Jerry Baker [1]
  • originally Software Development Laboratories [1]
  • Roger Bamford [1]
  • sargable predicates [1]
  • shipped SQL before IBM [1]
  • Wisconsin benchmark [1]
• OS/2 [1] [2]

P

• Pajaro Dunes [1]
• patenting software [1]
• Pellow, Frank [1]
• Peterlee Science Center [1]
• phantoms [1]
• Phase Zero:origins [1] [2]
• Phase Zero
  • prototypes installed [1]
  • videotape shown at SIGMOD '76 [1]
• Pong, Mike [1]
• Poughkeepsie
  • early System R users [1]
  • FS development [1]
  • not involved in SQL/DS [1]
• Pratt & Whitney Aircraft [1]
• predicate locks [1]
• provinces [1]
• PTREE [1]
• Pugh, Emerson [1]
• Putzolu, Franco
  • advised Informix [1]
• Putzolu, Franco:assigned to
  • Palo Alto [1]
  • Santa Teresa [1]
• Putzolu, Franco
  • came to San Jose [1]
  • first Oracle interview [1]
  • NULL theologians [1]
  • returned to Tandem [1]
  • studied IMS emulation on RSS [1]
  • terrified of predicate locks [1]
• Putzolu, Franco:went to
  • Esvel [1]
  • Tandem [1]
• Putzolu, Franco:wrote one bug in RSS [1]

Q

• Q+E [1]
• QBE
  • reimplemented as QMF [1]
  • shoot-out with System R [1]
• QMF [1] [2]
• QUEL:origins [1] [2]
• QUEL
  • tradition at Sybase [1]
  • used by Ingres to implement SQL [1]
• Query
  • by Example [1]
• Query Game
  • and QBE [1]
  • invented [1]
• Query Management Facility [1]

R

• Radin, George [1] [2]
• Rainbow [1]
• RDS (Relational Data System) [1]
• Reisner, Phyllis [1]
• Relational
  • Data System (RDS) [1]
  • Technology Inc. [1]
• Rendezvous [1]
• REQUEST [1]
• Research Storage System (RSS) [1]
• Revelle, Ron [1]
• RM (Relational Memory) [1]
• Rodriguez-Rosell, Juan [1]
• Rogers, Terry [1]
• Rosenheim, Don [1]
• Rovner, Paul [1]
• RSS (Research Storage System) [1]
• Rufus [1]

S

• Santa Teresa Lab
  • Bob Jolls [1]
  • coding standards [1]
  • compiling SQL [1]
  • early System R users [1]
  • exchange of people with San Jose Research [1]
  • Franco Putzolu [1]
  • Irv Traiger [1]
  • John Nauman [1]
  • Josephine Cheng [1]
  • Roger Miller [1]
  • SQL/DS [1]
• Saranga, Mike
  • bet Jim Gray 811 project would ship [1]
  • decided to stop Eagle [1]
• sargable predicate [1]
• Schkolnick, Mario [1] [2]
• Schneider, Pete [1]
• Scott, Bruce [1]
• Selinger, Bob
  • benchmarking [1]
  • NEMIS [1]
• Senko, Mike [1] [2]
• SEQUEL renamed SQL [1]
• Serendipity [1]
• shadow paging [1]
• Shan, Ming [1]
• Shaw, Phil [1]
• Shoens, Kurt [1]
• SIGFIDET [1] [2]
  [3]
• SIGMOD [1]
• Phase Zero video shown [1]
  • SEQUEL/DML paper [1]
• Simons, Andrew [1]
• SLI [1]
• Slutz, Don
  • Esvel [1]
• Slutz, Don:joined
  • RDS project [1]
  • Tandem [1]
• Slutz, Don
  • Open SQL [1]
  • Oracle interview [1]
• Software Development Laboratories [1]
• SQL
  • Access Group [1]
  • Language Council [1]
  • standard [1]
• SQL/DS origins [1]
• SQUARE
  • evolved into SEQUEL [1]
  • origins [1]
• SREDIT [1]
• STL [1]
• Stonebraker, Mike
  • developed QUEL [1]
  • Ingres added SQL support [1]
  • INGRES origins [1]
  • Rio trip [1]
• Sybase, Incorporated
  • Dennis McEvoy [1]
  • Jane Doughty [1]
  • Open SQL [1]
  • origins [1]
  • sargable predicates [1]
  • sold SQL Server to Microsoft [1]
  • Tabular Data Stream [1]
• System
  • A [1]
  • Logical Interface [1]
• System R
  • bug and wish lists [1]
  • code size [1]
  • origins [1]
• Systems Department [1] [2]

T

• Tabular Data Stream [1]
• Takao, Yoichi [1]
• Tandem Computers Incorporated [1]
• TDS [1]
• TELE [1]
• Teradata [1]
• Tiberio, Paolo [1]
• Tilman, Peter [1]
• TMF [1]
• TODS paper [1]
• Traiger, Irv:assigned to
  • Palo Alto [1]
  • Santa Teresa Lab [1]
• Traiger, Irv
  • early San Jose work [1]
  • FNEXT [1]
  • managed RSS [1]
  • mapped QBE to SQL [1]
• Trivett, Gene [1]
• Tsichritzis, Dennis [1]

U

• Ubell, Mike [1]
• UDL [1] [2]
• UFI [1]
• UNIX
  • IBM ODBC drivers [1]
  • Jerry Baker [1]
  • Sybase [1]
  • Tandem [1]
• Upjohn Pharmaceuticals [1]

V

• VM+ [1]
• VS/QUERY [1]

W

• Wang, C.P. [1]
• Watson
  • Research Lab [1]
  • Vera [1]
• Weick, Steve [1] [2]
• White Plains [1]
• Williams, Robin
  • came to San Jose [1]
  • managed Database Systems [1]
• Wisconsin benchmark [1]
• Wong, Gene [1]
• Work, Thomas [1]
• Worsencroft, Kim [1]

X

• XRM
  • developed at Cambridge Scientific Center [1]
  • origin of shadow pages [1]
  • pointer-based implementation [1]
• XRM:used by
  • Phase Zero prototype [1]
  • QBE [1]

Y

• Yendluri, Rao [1]
• Yorktown Mafia [1] [2]
• Yorktown:early
  • projects [1]
  • System R users [1]
• Yorktown
  • Office By Example [1]
  • Programming by example [1]
  • Query by Example [1]
  • Ted Codd's symposium [1]
• Yost, Bob [1]
• Yothers, Jay [1]
• YTABLE1 [1]

Z

• Zloof, Moshé [1]