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DB2noise.com is an independent community (not affiliated with IBM or any other IT vendor) designed to provide DB2 professionals a meeting place to help others, learn and encourage the effective use and development of the DB2 product range. The DB2noise team are all Business Intelligence and/or Data Warehouse experts representing a broad cross-section of industries as well as geographies spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. These experts freely give their time, sharing their vast experience and are the embodiment of the DB2noise community spirit. |
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 The name DB2 was first given to the Database Management System or DBMS in 1982 where IBM released SQL/DS and DB2 on its mainframe platform. Prior to this the product was named System Relational, or System R, which launched in 1978. DB2 has its roots back to the beginning of the seventies where Dr. E.F. Codd, working for IBM, described the theory of relational databases and in June of 1970 published the model for data manipulation. To apply the model Codd needed a relational database language which he named Alpha. IBM didn't believe in Codd's idea's potential, leaving its implementation to a group of programmers who weren't under Codd's supervision, violating several fundamentals of the relational model; the result was Structured English QUEry Language or SEQUEL. SEQUEL was already a trademarked name, so IBM renamed the acronym to SQL, short for Structured Query Language. The acronym SQL still stands to this day. (excerpt from Wikipedia )
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