flat file in English
noun
1
a file having no internal hierarchy.
Also, using databases rather than flat files to store messages has an obvious performance benefit.
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1. PHP Crud allows us to quickly add an indexed, record-centric, flat-file, database to our projects
2. A list of names, addresses, and phone numbers written by hand on a sheet of paper is a flat-file database.
3. A COBOL Copybook is a type of flat file that describes the layout of records and fields in a COBOL data file