flat file

Like a hand or flat file that comes to a point on the end.

As seen in Figure 3.21, a relation is a flat file.

Until Spring 2007, all data was stored in flat files.

Newspaper people thought the floor was a big flat filing cabinet.

Use a flat file to trim the edge further, if necessary.

A system loading these details from flat files would be a great improvement.

They are housed neatly in flat files and arranged by building.

To see more of what they are up to, you can dip into the gallery's famous flat files.

Even his big metal flat file is on wheels, and it can be used for seating.

He takes only a 20 percent commission on work from the flat files, which require a lot of upkeep.

It was written in Perl and used a flat file database.

When the laughs run out, which they quickly do, the flat files await and reward attention.

There is only a file system, and indexes are essentially held as flat files.

A unstructured 'flat file' is edited as a single block.

In a flat file system, there are no subdirectories.

The material in the flat files naturally has a more immediate presence and is well worth spending time with.

Big Medium stores its data in flat files and folders, rather than a database.

"Flat file database" may be defined very narrowly, or more broadly.

However, the basic terms "record" and "field" are used in nearly every flat file database implementation.

Data bases fall into two broad categories: flat file and relational.

Many pieces of computer software are designed to implement flat file databases.

I open a flat file drawer and take out a sheet of indigo-dyed paper.

Smooth the cut edge with a flat file.

The files are then combined into a flat file containing all the hybridisations.

As distributed, the nameserver was backed by a flat file database.