Raymond F. Boyce

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Raymond ‘Ray’ Boyce grew up in New York, he went to college in Providence, Rhode Island and got his PhD in Purdue in 1971 [1] . After he left Purdue he worked on database projects for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York. In the short period that he had, which was not quite two years long, he invented Boyce-Codd Normal Form. Together with Don Chamberlin he invented Standard Query Language(SQL) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM in San Jose California. He died in 1974 as a result of a an aneurysm of the brain, just a few month after his marriage to Sandy when his daughter Kristen was just nine months old.

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[2]The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (early history of SQL)

[3] Boyce-Codd Normal Form

[4] SQL

[5] D.D. Chamberlin and R.F. Boyce: “SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language” Proc. ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control, Ann Arbor, Michigan (May 1974) pages 249-264.