Re: [sqlite] Question about a query

2018-10-09 Thread James K. Lowden
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:22:12 -0700 Jens Alfke wrote: > You could implement a custom query function to do this (custom > functions are quite simple, and there are examples online). http://www.schemamania.org/sql/sqlite/udf/ Been there, done that. :-) --jkl

Re: [sqlite] SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?

2018-10-09 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 21:21:38 +0100 Simon Slavin wrote: > There is never any point in this process when a manager looks at > what's being done with Excel and says "Okay we need to hire a > programmer to turn this into a proper App.". Hmm, there is such a point. I used to do work like that, and

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Simon Slavin
On 9 Oct 2018, at 10:38pm, Keith Medcalf wrote: > And just what is NSFW spam? Messages purporting to come from young women. Some including images purporting to be them in various states of undress. Simon. ___ sqlite-users mailing list

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list

2018-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 9, 2018, at 3:05 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > > On 9 Oct 2018, at 9:49pm, Warren Young wrote: > >> Also: This list may be an unusually juicy target, given the number of places >> SQLite is deployed. > > The minute SQLite gains any sort of internet connectivity, a hundred thousand >

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Keith Medcalf
>One of the problems we’ve been having on these lists is that every >time someone posts to it, they get NSFW spam, presumably because by >posting, you’ve just proven that your email address is valid. >Everyone on the ML sees the poster’s email address. My mailer >included yours in the quoting

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 9, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > > On 2018-10-09 12:56 PM, Eric wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:19:13 -0600, Warren Young wrote: >>> Gmane is part of the problem that lead to the creation of the Fossil >>> forum feature. Viz., it enables spammers, by design: >>> >>>

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 9, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Eric wrote: > > I suppose I must be an "anti-forum type" even though I have never used > Gmane, but it does rather sound as though you are applying a somewhat > perjorative label here. I make no value judgement. If you are against web forums, then you are

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list

2018-10-09 Thread Simon Slavin
On 9 Oct 2018, at 9:49pm, Warren Young wrote: > Also: This list may be an unusually juicy target, given the number of places > SQLite is deployed. The minute SQLite gains any sort of internet connectivity, a hundred thousand man-hours of cracking attempts will be launched. Which is why it's

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2018-10-09 12:56 PM, Eric wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:19:13 -0600, Warren Young wrote: Gmane is part of the problem that lead to the creation of the Fossil forum feature. Viz., it enables spammers, by design: http://gmane.org/about/ I don't see that page saying what you claim it

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list

2018-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 9, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > There are many mailing lists which are not moderated by a human (to my > knowledge) and do not suffer from this problem. Why? Maybe because > someone took time to put a well tuned spam filter in place on the MTA > level? Would you rather

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Eric
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:19:13 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 9, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Scott Robison wrote: >> >> Isn't Gmane a web forum style interface to email lists? > > Gmane also provides NNTP access. I suspect the anti-forum types are > using Usenet news readers to follow such lists.

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list

2018-10-09 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-10-09 11:19, Warren Young wrote: > Gmane is part of the problem that lead to the creation of the Fossil > forum feature. Viz., it enables spammers, by design: > > http://gmane.org/about/ > [...] > It is possible that Fossil will grow an email submission feature > before that

Re: [sqlite] Question about a query

2018-10-09 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Oct 9, 2018, at 6:47 AM, Leonardo Inácio de Freitas > wrote: > > Using SQLite, can you use masks (or regex) (like '% str%') inside > instr / substr, to delimit the output of a select, instead of me > determining the beginning and end of the substring? You could implement a custom query

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 9, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Scott Robison wrote: > > Isn't Gmane a web forum style interface to email lists? Gmane also provides NNTP access. I suspect the anti-forum types are using Usenet news readers to follow such lists. Gmane is part of the problem that lead to the creation of the

Re: [sqlite] Question about a query

2018-10-09 Thread Brian Curley
well... It's not quite that categorical "no", although Simon's more than correct. There's extensions that allow for regexp(), such as you might find in SQLite Studio that allow for some really handy cross-functionality when paired with group_concat(), for example. (It's addictive to have it

Re: [sqlite] Question about a query

2018-10-09 Thread Simon Slavin
On 9 Oct 2018, at 2:47pm, Leonardo Inácio de Freitas wrote: > Using SQLite, can you use masks (or regex) (like '% str%') inside > instr / substr, to delimit the output of a select, instead of me > determining the beginning and end of the substring? No. Sorry. You have to use string core

Re: [sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Scott Robison
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 6:34 AM Will Parsons wrote: > On Sunday, 7 Oct 2018 5:25 PM -0400, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > > Many people do not "do" web forums. I am one of them. If there is not > a mailing list then it does not exist. > > I completely agree. I read and post to the SQLite mailing

[sqlite] Question about a query

2018-10-09 Thread Leonardo Inácio de Freitas
Hello! Using SQLite, can you use masks (or regex) (like '% str%') inside instr / substr, to delimit the output of a select, instead of me determining the beginning and end of the substring? What I need (example): SELECT (substr (my_field, like% abc, until_next_spacechar_after (like% abc))) from

[sqlite] SQLite mailing list [was: SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?]

2018-10-09 Thread Will Parsons
On Sunday, 7 Oct 2018 5:25 PM -0400, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > Many people do not "do" web forums. I am one of them. If there is not a > mailing list then it does not exist. I completely agree. I read and post to the SQLite mailing via Gmane, and I used to do the same for Fossil. Now that