>>>to RDBMS and SQL
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>When you discuss DBMS and SQL, there are two different historical paths.
>The one you cited is one source for DBMS theory, but SQL traces its origins to QBE, a language developed by IBM for the legal profession during the late 70's or early 80's.
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>My first contact with DBMS was with ADABAS on an IBM mainframe during the late 70's. It blew my mind when I first used it.
>The mainframe licence for ADABAS cost about $90K.
>MYSQL, which is free, does more.
>How's that for progress?

Thank you for the clarification. No, not a clarification, a correction ;-) I am not in politics.....

Developer tools have improved in every way since "seasoned" folks ;-) like you and me started. If you took one of the old timers and let them play with VS they would think they had died and gone to heaven.