Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-26 Thread Thomas . L
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:20:09 -0700, you wrote: >Well, and English is a language used by humans to convey their >understandings to other humans :-). You can do technical >hairsplitting all you want, but the fact is that the term "flat file" >has a long history of being used to refer to text files

Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:05:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe a structured Textfile is a flatfile, if > possibly readable as a tableview. But it is so > only in humans view and humans understanding. Well, and English is a language used by humans to convey their understandings to

Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-26 Thread Thomas . L
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:06:44 -0400, you wrote: Hello >I've noticed that more than one contributor to this list has referred to >sqlite as a "flat file database." I had always thought of a flat file as a >file composed of single table of records, with records defined either by >fixed-width

Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-25 Thread Clark Christensen
iginal Message From: Fred Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:13:10 PM Subject: RE: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite Unless you have a very funny shaped disk drive all the files are "Flat" :-)

Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-25 Thread Dennis Cote
Fred Williams wrote: Unless you have a very funny shaped disk drive all the files are "Flat" :-) Actually, none of the files on a hard disk are "flat", since they are stored on circular tracks on the surface of the platters. Those on the outer cylinders of the disk will be flatter than

RE: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-25 Thread Fred Williams
nd retrievable only by opening the file and reading sequentially from start to finish to seek out a particular data item. Fred > -Original Message- > From: Griggs, Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:07 PM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subj

Re: [sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-25 Thread John Stanton
Griggs, Donald wrote: I've noticed that more than one contributor to this list has referred to sqlite as a "flat file database." I had always thought of a flat file as a file composed of single table of records, with records defined either by fixed-width allocations or by some sort of

[sqlite] The term "flat-file" as applied to sqlite

2006-09-25 Thread Griggs, Donald
I've noticed that more than one contributor to this list has referred to sqlite as a "flat file database." I had always thought of a flat file as a file composed of single table of records, with records defined either by fixed-width allocations or by some sort of delimiter (e.g.,