A FAD for data intensive applications
Scott H. Danforth, Patrick Valduriez · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 1992
FAD is a strongly typed database programming language designed for uniformly manipulating transient and persistent data on Bubba, a parallel database system developed at MCC. The paper provides an overall description of FAD, and discusses the design rationale behind a number of its distinguishing features. Comparisons with other database programming languages are provided.>