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File: Flat-File Manager Not a Relational Database
Last reviewed: October 27, 1994
Article ID: Q41594
Summary
Microsoft File is not a relational database; it is a flat-file database. Flat-file databases store the data in the data file in a flat, grid-like structure, with the records representing rows and the fields representing columns.
Relational databases are so named because they relate two or more fields together. Relational databases use fields common to several data files to maintain relationships among them. Many applications can maintain multiple relationships simultaneously.
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description and cabinet and records
Additional reference words: datafile
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Last reviewed: October 27, 1994
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