Proper noun
CODASYL
(computing, historical) Acronym of Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages.
1960s, navigational DBMS further Basic structure of navigational CODASYL database model The introduction of the term database coincided with the availability of direct-access storage (disks and drums) from the mid-1960s onwards. Source: Internet
COBOL Grace Murray Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, c. 1960 In the spring of 1959, a two-day conference known as the Conference on Data Systems Languages ( CODASYL ) brought together computer experts from industry and government. Source: Internet
Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in CODASYL, Codd's idea was to use a " table " of fixed-length records, with each table used for a different type of entity. Source: Internet
Codd's ideas were establishing themselves as both workable and superior to CODASYL, pushing IBM to develop a true production version of System R, known as SQL/DS, and, later, Database 2 (DB2). Source: Internet
IMS was generally similar in concept to CODASYL, but used a strict hierarchy for its model of data navigation instead of CODASYL's network model. Source: Internet
In 1971, the Database Task Group delivered their standard, which generally became known as the "CODASYL approach", and soon a number of commercial products based on this approach entered the market. Source: Internet