Welcome to the home of Flat-File SQL! Flat-File SQL (or fSQL for short) is a way to use SQL queries without having another database (like mySQL) installed. It uses regular files that you store wherever you want. At the moment, there is only a PHP version, but a perl version and possibly other language ports are planned.
Latest Releases
PHP Version 1.3.1
Released: December 4, 2008
PHP Version 1.3
Released: October 31, 2008
PHP Version 1.2
Released: April 25, 2006
There are several advantages to using fSQL over regular flat-files:
fSQL allows you to take advantage of SQL queries to easily manipulate and extract data without having to do it manually using the native file API.
fSQL has a fully object-oriented API in which the methods are similiar to the mySQL API to avoid a lot of changes. This allows a program designed for mySQL to easily be ported to a flat-file system without any drastic changes.
fSQL supports all the essential SQL commands and mimics mySQL syntax and features as fully as possible.
fSQL offers some new and rare query commands such as SEARCH and MERGE to simplify other normally long tasks.