Re: What is a FLAT FILE ?

From: Stu <smcgouga_at_@yaho.com_>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:19:44 +0100
Message-ID: <1025612381.16203.0.nnrp-13.c2de0ffb@news.demon.co.uk>

sales men call it a data warehouse!

stu

"Lyle Lexier" <llexier_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news: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 Tue Jul 02 2002 - 07:19:44 CDT