M. Carey, D.D. Chamberlin, et al.
SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data)
In a high level query and data manipulation language such as SQL, requests are stated non-procedurally, without reference to access paths. This paper describes hou System R chooses access paths for both simple (single relation) and complex queries (such as joins), given a user specification of desired data as a boolean expression of predicates. System R is an experimental database management system developed to carry out research on the relational model of data. System R was designed and built by members of the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory.
M. Carey, D.D. Chamberlin, et al.
SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data)
D.D. Chamberlin, H.P. Schlaeppi, et al.
IBM J. Res. Dev
D.D. Chamberlin
COMPCON 1997
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National Computer Conference AFIPS 1975