flat file

基本解釋

What we need is a newline-delimited flat file, where each full record is contained on one line.
但我們需要的是按新行分隔的平面文件，其中每行都包含一條完整的記錄。
Using this data set there is a one-to-one column mapping between the flat file data and the database tables.
在平面文件數(shù)據(jù)源和數(shù)據(jù)庫表之間存在的這個數(shù)據(jù)集有一個一對一的欄位之間的映射，。
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Inbound work, like number of files in the file system for a flat file adapter or data in a database table for a JDBC adapter, should not grow unusually.
到達的工作（比如平面文件適配器的文件系統(tǒng)中的文件或 JDBC 適配器的數(shù)據(jù)庫表中的數(shù)據(jù)）不應(yīng)該以超常的速度增長。

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