RE: Tables and PFs -- MIDRANGE-L

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As far as I understood (and my limited English knowledge may get me in
problems here), the OP did not ask what to call these things, but how
to explain the difference:

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Is there a simple way to explain the difference between a table and a
physical file a part from one is created by SQL and the other with
DDS?
Should it bug me when a coworker says table but means a PF? It does
and I'm not sure why.
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It's an argument over semantics and I am seldom drawn into one of those. My
apologies.

So you know where I'm coming from (before I disappear on to more meaningful
labors): the key questions I see are: "Is there a simple way to explain the
difference between a table and a PF," and "Should it bug me..." I see the
"other than" as an attempted partial answer to OP's own question.

Maybe OP knows how the entities were created; maybe not. I've assumed 'not'
in this case, and my responses are based on that.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before."
-- Mae West

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