Re: Quest for Codd's papers

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.

Eric

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