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Edgar Codd, inventor of the relational database (cockroachlabs.com)
7 points by TigeriusKirk on Aug 19, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



$5 to the next person who correctly uses "backronym" in a sentence: "Unfortunately, SEQUEL was already trademarked by a British aeronautics company and so the vowels were dropped to make it SQL, acronym (or is it backronym?) for Structured Query Language."




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