Donald D. Chamberlin

Donald D. Chamberlin ( called Don Chamberlin, born December 21, 1944 in San Jose, California) is an American computer scientist who deals with relational databases. He is one of the developers of SQL.

Chamberlin Harvey Mudd College studied at the bachelor's degree in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University (Parallel Implementation of a Single - Assignment Language). Since 1971, he conducted research for IBM, first at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose. In 2003, he was IBM Fellow and 2009 he was at IBM in retirement.

1992 to 1995 he was an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University. In the 2000s he taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The mid-1970s he developed with Raymond F. Boyce, the database query language SQL ( or their precursors SEQUEL ). He was the manager of the system R project of IBM, the SQL implemented.

Later he was involved in the development of XQuery, a XML query language. He developed with Jonathan Robie and Dana Florescu, he developed the predecessor language quilt, based on XQuery. He is co-editor of the W3C XQuery and XPath standards.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 1988 he received the ACM Software System Award. He was made an honorary Doctor of the University of Zurich in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM). In 2003 he received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.

Writings

• A complete guide to DB2 universal database, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998 German translation: DB2 Universal Database, 2nd edition, Addison -Wesley 1999