Is a table similar to a file?

Answer 1

A database would be like a folder of spreadsheets. So a table would be lie a spreadsheet, not just a regular file.

Answer 2

a table culd be like a file whit one row fore each post ... you cold alsow have the table as a subforlder and one file is a post

that is to say you can store all data form a database into a file .sql whit each like is a SQL query to build up the hold database(like export in phpmyadmin) you culd also stor all data in a .XML-file but thay might be werry big.

*phpmyadmin is a GUI for editing database