Re: Quest for Codd's papers

From: Nicola <nvitacolonna_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:21:54 +0100
Message-ID: <n7nn42$2ofp$1_at_adenine.netfront.net>


On 2016-01-19 15:56:57 +0000, compdb_at_hotmail.com said:

> 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.

Thanks, thanks and thanks again! I have never bothered to look into what it looks like just the front matter of the issue. For the other issues I have checked the PDF is indeed just the ToC, so if you know how to find the other installments, I'd very much appreciate that.

Did I say thanks?
Nicola

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