Mesa Mesa Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for "table") is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs. It takes its name from its characteristic table-top shape. It may also be called a table hill, table-topped hill or table mountain. It is larger than a butte, which it otherwise resembles closely. It is a characteristic landform of arid environments, particularly the Western and Southwestern United States in badlands and mountainous regions ranging from Washington and California to the Dakotas, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, and Texas. Examples are also found
Flat-file database from being "flat," and when it has a detailed system for describing types and hierarchical relationships, it is now too structured to be considered "flat." The following example illustrates typical elements of a flat-file database. The data arrangement consists of a series of columns and rows organized into a tabular format. This specific example uses only one table. The columns include: "name" (a person's name, second column); "team" (the name of an athletic team supported by the person, third column); and a numeric "unique ID", (used to uniquely identify records, first column). Here is an example textual representation of the