flat file

English

Noun

flat file (plural flat files)

  1. (computing) A data file containing usually one record per line.
    Synonym: flat text
    When the flat file became unmanageable, we switched to a proper database system.

Further reading

This page is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.