It's interesting that the opening analogy in the post uses an Excel spreadsheet as a great way to explain a database. It's such an easy next step to say the way an xls/ods file is saved is a file format but the column layout in the tabs/tables are the schemas. The court (and the city) playing these games is so scary since it is so biased toward all modern government data being covered by FOIA exemptions.
It's interesting that the opening analogy in the post uses an Excel spreadsheet as a great way to explain a database. It's such an easy next step to say the way an xls/ods file is saved is a file format but the column layout in the tabs/tables are the schemas. The court (and the city) playing these games is so scary since it is so biased toward all modern government data being covered by FOIA exemptions.
An Excel spreadsheet template is an arrangement of rows/columns/cells which is encoded in a XML document which is encoded in a ZIP file archive.
I don't follow your point.
Yes, it's a file format.
(Kinda a file format inside a file format inside a file format.)
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File or file layout? Cause both of these are probably stored as files, .sql and .xltx respectively.