Jeff Moden (12/6/2009)
SQL Server and all relational databases aren't much more than glorified file handlers.
And OO languages are just syntactic sugar! After all, everything can be done with machine code! 😉
Tables are really nothing more than files with lines (rows) and fields (columns)
Tables are nothing of the kind! A file is a one dimensional stream of bytes. Rows and columns are just two dimensions. Relational tables on the other hand may have any number of dimensions. Data values in a relation cannot be accessed by row or column indices like a spreadsheet. I think that's a pretty important and fundamental distinction for most people.