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What’s cool about this Joe is the historical perspective - it is so absent in most tech literature. Context is lost without it, and newcomers wont know why things are the way they are.

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The context is super important

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Wow. PTSD. My first professional programming job out of college - using IMS as the database for internal Order management, Purchasing and Fixed Assets. Before ERP's were prevalent. A bit of a pain to navigate, incentivized me to take on a job at a new employer with DB2 relational database. Technically IMS much more efficient and less DASD ..(or Storage ;) ). P.S. It seems we are back to hierarchical structures with JSON and XML and NOSQL DB's.

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Oy, sorry for the ptsd :)

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Hoping to see a mention of C. J. Date. Published first textbook on relational databases in 1975. Still writing! Latest book came out this summer.

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Oh, good call. I think he’s already made a guest appearance in the relationships section :)

CJ will make many appearances shortly. Just need to get back home to make sure I quote his books accurately.

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This will likely go into the revised "History" chapter. Stay tuned.

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