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Kevin: Bob, cancel all your appointments. I simply have to tell you about a wondrous event that has just changed the IT world forever.
Bob: One of your computer projects came in on time and within budget?
Kevin: No, not quite as radical as that. Ted Codd's just published his new "Twelve Commandments"! Codd's the ultimate IS guru. In 1985 he redefined the world of transaction processing by writing his 12 laws of relational data base management. Now he's done the same for online analytical processing. Twelve more commandments, every one a winner!
Harry: You've lost me, Kevin. What's a relational data base or an analytical process?
Kevin: A relational data base is how we store transactions. One of our salesmen in Oregon sells a product to a customer in …
Source: HighBeam Research, Praise be to Codd. (information systems guru Ted Codd) (Soft Machine)