[GNC] Database storage

[Chris Miller]

Hi Robert, 

> One thing that all of the *SQL backends do provide over the flat XML file
> storage: accessing the data (*read-only!*) between runs of GnuCash is easier.
> Instead of either trying to parse the XML or using Python bindings to the
> GnuCash API, one can write code using SQL (in any language that supports SQL)
> to grab data to generate reports, etc. outside of the GnuCash framework. I
> believe at least one person on this list does exactly that.
Oh! Do I understand the GnuCash parses the data and stores it in database tables? --- like one table for each account? Or are all the rows going to be the same with each row being an accounting transaction "acct 1 $X.XX acct 2 -$X.XX"? What about "splits"? 

Thanks for the help, 
-- 
Chris. 

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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
    Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?