The Gnucash database?

[Louis Bouchard]

Jack Gates wrote:

>Through out this thread people have been talking about Flat Files and it has 
>been stated that there are different meanings of flat files.
>
>My question is what is a flat file as opposed to what?  Flat File and ______ 
>file.
>
>Thanks for any explanations,
>
>  
>
Flat File vs. Relational Database File.

An excel spredsheet is an example of a flat file.

The method for airline flight reservation is a relational database.