Raymond F. Boyce

Raymond Francis Boyce (August 27, 1946 – June 18, 1974) was an American computer scientist known for his research in relational databases. He is best known for his work co-developing the SQL database language and the Boyce-Codd normal form.

Biography Boyce was born in New York City on August 27, 1946. He attended Providence College, from which he graduated in 1968. He earned his PhD in computer science at Purdue in 1972. His wife was a nurse named Doris Ann (whence her nickname 'Sanndy'), whom he had met in college. After leaving 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 co-developed Boyce–Codd normal form. Together with Donald D. Chamberlin, he co-developed Structured Query Language (SQL) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM in San Jose, California. He died on June 18, 1974, as a result of an aneurysm, leaving behind his wife Sanndy It was one of the first languages to use Edgar F. Codd's relational model. SEQUEL was later renamed to SQL by dropping the vowels, because SEQUEL was a trade mark registered by the Hawker Siddeley aircraft company.