what is flatfile?what is the use of this file?where we can
use usualy?what is the advantage of this?

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what is flatfile?what is the use of this file?where we can use usualy?what is the advantage of thi..

Answer / prasanth

Flat file is used to send data from one system to another.
I.e You can read the data from flat file and map the flat
file date to database files. Mainly used in EDI references.
And also you can use SUBSTR to extract specific length of
string usig SQL from flat file.

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what is flatfile?what is the use of this file?where we can use usualy?what is the advantage of thi..

Answer / syam

Flat File = Fixied Length Record File. More than One record
format with different field length. Using in s/36 and s/38
machine on RPG II and COBOL. Diadvsntage you can't use SQL
statement on this file.

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