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FWIW, SQL is actually the runner-up for Relational DBs. Codd had something he called Alpha: > The Alpha language was the original database language proposed b
by carapace 7y ago
FWIW, SQL is actually the runner-up for Relational DBs. Codd had something he called Alpha:
> The Alpha language was the original database language proposed by Edgar F. Codd, the inventor of the relational database approach. It was defined in Codd's 1971 paper "A Data Base Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(programming_language)
Also see Datalog and Prolog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog