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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by anigbrowl on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:05PM (#28227741)
It's worth mentioning that SQLite is committed by its publishers to be backward-compatible out to 2050 and is the recommended by the Library of Congress as a safe long-term storage format (as are XML, JSON, and CSV). https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html

For single tables a database is probably overkill, but it's nice to have around when you need something reasonably powerful without being overly complex or hard to get started with.

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by dolni on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:54PM (#28230162)
I suppose if I was to recommend some "safe long-term storage formats" I, too, would choose things that are readable in plain ASCII and/or have open source roots.

Shoutout to the Library of Congress for doing the real heavy lifting here?

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