What is a FLAT FILE ?

From: Lyle Lexier <llexier_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 30 Jun 2002 23:33:34 -0700
Message-ID: <73918e96.0206302233.36739e55_at_posting.google.com>



What is a FLAT FILE ?

A FLAT FILE is just one table organized easily into fields and rows. It is an easily structured table as in Appleworks, Access, and Dbase III & IV. A FLAT FILE is a single table file. In fact all data files were FLAT files before SQL (structure query language) came into existence. A database is either flat or relational. Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 08:33:34 CEST

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