RecommendedReading

This is list of recommended reading for those interesting in understanding the core concepts to which this site is dedicated.

These are by Darwen and Date.

• The primary document is TheThirdManifesto, a set of requirements for a relational database language that should be the foundation for a relational database (instead of SQL). [1]

• The companion document is the InformationMemorandum, the requirements if a particular language is to support inheritance. [2]

• The book Databases, Types, and The Relational Model: The Third Manifesto first presented TheThirdManifesto, and contains additional explanatory material.

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These are by others.

• The Tarpit paper OutOfTheTarPit describes the difficulties facing current database software development in terms of essential and accidental complexity, and recommends an approach to resolving them. [4]

• The HelsinkiDeclaration is a set of blog posts which describes the rationale and method for building Window on Data applications, based on SQL, but in many ways compliant with Tarpit. [5]

• The AliceBook is a solid treatise on relational theory and defines the features a relational language should have. [6]