Inclusion and equivalence between relational database schemata

A relational model of data for large shared data banks

E. F. Codd · Communications of the ACM · 1970 · 5.2K citations · Full text

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Database abstractions

John Miles Smith, Diane C. P. Smith · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1977 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Synthesizing third normal form relations from functional dependencies

Philip A. Bernstein · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1976 · 449 citations · Full text

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Independent components of relations

J. Rissanen · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1977 · 186 citations · Full text

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Normal forms and relational database operators

Ronald Fagin · 1979 · 154 citations

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