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
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
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
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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"
:-)
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
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
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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
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.,
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