That's cool Bob,
one of the very nice things about ageing
is non fixed attachment to things.

Whilst I would not care to accept your point,
I would not care to debate it either :)
The thing is, it does the job I ask of it, and delivers
pertinent info, beit a database or an oxymoron.

Best wishes, and Regards.
Rodney



| Hi Rodney,
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| I think that is my point. Excel is NOT a database, however hard many people
| try and make it (including MS in 12?), and a flat file is a flat file. It
| might be able to manage tasks that were originally done by flat files or
| even databases, but it still is not one. A database as I was taught has
| files/tables whatever, and a some form of structure. So to me, a flat file
| database is an oxymoron.
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| HTH
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| Bob Phillips
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| (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)
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| "Rodney" wrote in message
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| G'day Bob,
| Excel is a flat file database, when used as such,
| as opposed to a "Relational Database, eg: Access
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| A flat file database is described by a very simple database model,
| where all the information is stored in a plain text file, one database
| record per line. Each record is divided into fields using delimiters or
| at fixed column positions. The data is "flat", as in a sheet of paper,
| as compared to a more complex model such as a relational database.
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| I use MSWorks for smaller files, but that will only take 32,000 records,
| so for larger volume, I have to sneak over to Excel.
| The benefits of MSWorks include a learning curve of about 10 minutes
| to be up and running, and for small jobs, like organising Local Cricket
| database, record collections, and so forth.
| HTH
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| | What is a flat file database? Sounds like a contradiction to me.
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