flat file management system

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what basically is a "flat file management system?" pls
reply asap....thanks..=)
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A 1950's-1960's era incarnation of databases, in which the entire
database is one large table with a very large number of fields,
usually requiring that many fields be stored repeatedly and
redundantly.

Why? What's the context?
 
Hi Raine,

Presumably it's a system for managing flat files. "Flat file" in a
database context usually means a data store consisting of a single table
in which all records have the same structure (e.g. PersonID, FirstName,
Surname, Address, HoursWorkedInJan, HoursWorkedInFeb...). Contrast with
relational databases, where the data store can consist of multiple
related tables (e.g. one table with PersonID, FirstName, Surname,
Addres, and another with PersonId, Month, and HoursWorked).
 
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