Re: Quest for Codd's papers

On 19/01/2016 18:06, Eric wrote:
> On 2016-01-19, compdb_at_hotmail.com <compdb_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 7:27:37 AM UTC-8, Nicola wrote:
>>
>>>> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 5:35:13 AM UTC-5, Nicola wrote:
>>>>> I have been long searching for Codd's "Understanding Relations" series of
>>>>> articles, especially Installment #7. Does anyone happen to have a copy?
>>
>>> I have access to ACM papers through my institution, but only Installment #4
>>> is there. They should be included in the SIGMOD Anthology DVDs, but as far
>>> as I know such DVDs are out of print.
>>
>> It's available through my institution in the ACM Digital Library, ACM
>> SIGMOD Record Volume 7 Issue 3-4, 1975.
>>
>> It's (obscurely) in the Source Materials / Front Matter / pdf
>> download. Which is actually a scan of the whole issue, except for a
>> few articles which have been excised and are available as the (only)
>> articles listed in the electronic Table of Contents.
>>
>> Interestingly Codd's article isn't listed in the scanned table of contents.
>
> Some of the others are like that too (but maybe in the TOC). The one I
> don't have is the first one.

Apparently, they have updated their library. If you search for ACM SIGMOD Record, Issue 1, June 1973, the first installment (actually, the whole issue) is there. In the Front Matter, as usual.

Nicola Received on Mon Feb 20 2017 - 12:18:17 CET