Simple, fast SQL queries for flat files

Question

Does anyone know of any tools to provide simple, fast queries of flat files using a SQL-like declarative query language? I\'d rather not pay the overhead of loading the file in

Answer 1

I made a tool that might help. http://www.mccoyonlinestore.com/index.php?txtSearch=mccoy_rdbms your sql could be "Select Max(value) from animals" or it could by "Select * from animals order by value desc"