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> This is the oldest and most well-known query execution model, and was first proposed in 1994.

Is the author younger than 25. Not picturing a world of databases before 1994? Did the world even exist?

I kid but regardless of when a paper describing some process was published the “oldest” query execution model is decidedly a lot older than 26 years.

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Author updated it to:

> This is the oldest and most well-known query execution model, and is named for the paper which standardized its conventions in 1994.

Since the paper references previous databases, I'd rather assume incorrect expression from the blog author than ignorance.

Yes my intention was that it's more or less the reference version of that model, certainly databases like System R existed many years before Volcano :) I appreciate the correction.

Seriously though, the article was very well written. I knew it was a cheap shot. Sadly for some of us 1994 doesn’t seem like that long ago.

It continually disappoints me in IT how the same things are rediscovered over and over again. I suppose its because you can get an IT job without much IT education, just make some web sites and you're an expert.

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