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Comment by debesyla

2 years ago

Maybe a dumb question (I have no knowledge), but why wouldn't we think of .CSV files as databases? It can have columns and rows filled with information and isn't that what makes a thing a database?

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nobleach  2 years ago

Best I can guess here, the reply is considering relational databases as "real databases" and flat files.... not real.

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