Mr. Chamberlin was my dad's roommate at Harvey Mudd and worked with him at IBM. It amazes him how much Sequel runs the world now.
Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
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Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#12I've been subscribed to this podcast since his 2nd or 3rd episode. He's had some interesting guests. I think the podcast is a one-man show. He could probably use some help with mixing/production (and a new intro theme), but for a one-man show it's pretty darn good. Edit: I'm an idiot and just realized OP is the podcaster.
Thank You. Yes, I'm a one-man army and would use some help. Finding interesting guests have not been hard but doing this week after week has been hectic, but I love it. Maybe someday I can run the podcast as a team.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#13I've been subscribed to this podcast since his 2nd or 3rd episode. He's had some interesting guests. I think the podcast is a one-man show. He could probably use some help with mixing/production (and a new intro theme), but for a one-man show it's pretty darn good. Edit: I'm an idiot and just realized OP is the podcaster.
Thank You. Yes, I'm a one-man army and would use some help. Finding interesting guests have not been hard but doing this week after week has been hectic, but I love it. Maybe someday I can run the podcast as a team.
Well considering you're doing it all by yourself, you are doing an awesome job! I look forward to each new interview. I like that you give the guests time to provide an in-depth answer without peppering them with too many questions.
When you're a famous podcaster you can do a Mapping the Journey episode about Mapping the Journey! :)
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#14One thing I thought about after reading this interview was just how much these grassroots projects (at the time) were done just as a labor of love. Also, just how free companies were with information. Publish a paper and share it with the world.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#15I was glad for a transcript!
I find it interesting that the technology of the time meant it was hard to write ∀ and ∃ (though APL users seemed to go OK) and so they chose a complex syntax that reminds me of COBOL. The early database applications were business applications (SABRE being #1 I believe) so this wouldn't have been at all an unreasonable basis for SQL's syntax.