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Text file databases

When your data is only a series of simple records, storing those records in a flat text file may be the easiest way to go. However, it is slower than a real database, and may lead to data corruption if you are not really careful.

  1. Data record delimiters
  2. Order of fields within a record
  3. Getting useful ID numbers
  4. File locking
  5. Sorting records
  6. Editing records
  7. Deleting records

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