If this is all there was to it, there wouldn’t be many advantages over a comma-delimited file. But we can do a lot of things better once we have this organizational structure.

Traditional file organization has security advantages over electronic filing, but it also has its disadvantages. Electronic files are usually accessible on a network, which means it's possible for ...

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Conventional file systems are optimzed for large file transfers instead of workloads that are dominated by metadata and small file accesses. This paper examines using techniques adopted from NoSQL ...

The Relational File System (RelFS) is a proposed new way to store files and represent knowledge. Although the hierarchical file model is ubiquitous, RelFS is intended complement or replace hierarchies ...

When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

For National 5 Computing Science, revise the use of primary and foreign keys and the difference between flat file and relational databases.