Re: Flat Query

From: Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com>
Date: 14 Oct 2005 08:55:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1129305322.558224.22640@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

The term 'flat file' has been in use for more than 20 years. It was generally applied to files accessed in a sequential manner as opposed to being accessed via direct access or ISAM, Indexed Sequential Acess Method, files. Over time, especially, in the non-mainframe world the term was usually used a synonym for a text file.

In the database world the term usually refers to OS files that are used to feed data to a load process or hold the results of an extract process. In other words, ETL, operations.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Fri Oct 14 2005 - 10:55:22 CDT