Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-31 Thread dmp
Randall wrote: ~ ~ > Any application that involves a "persistent" database, i.e., one where the data is > long-lived and expected to exist and evolve over time, sooner or later has the issue > of moving customers from a V1 database to a V2 database. Obviously at least one > technical issue (there

Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-31 Thread Ling, Andy
> This is not strictly a SQLite question, though in my case it is. > > Any application that involves a "persistent" database, i.e., one where the > data is long-lived and expected to exist and evolve over time, sooner or later > has the issue of moving customers from a V1 database to a V2

Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-30 Thread Keith Medcalf
pated traffic volume. >-Original Message- >From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users- >boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Roger Binns >Sent: Thursday, 30 August, 2018 11:10 >To: sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org >Subject: Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversio

Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-30 Thread Scott Robison
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:10 AM Roger Binns wrote: > > On 30/08/18 09:51, Randall Smith wrote: > > is how to convert existing data from one DB format to another, given some > > arbitrary set of changes in the database schema in the interim. > > I use SQLite's user pragma. It starts at zero. >

Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-30 Thread Simon Slavin
On 30 Aug 2018, at 5:51pm, Randall Smith wrote: > Are there accepted or best practices in the industry for handling this in > general, or with SQLite in particular? Can anyone who has implemented this > make useful suggestions? Or are there published resources I am missing? Roger has

Re: [sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-30 Thread Roger Binns
On 30/08/18 09:51, Randall Smith wrote: > is how to convert existing data from one DB format to another, given some > arbitrary set of changes in the database schema in the interim. I use SQLite's user pragma. It starts at zero. https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_user_version My code ends

[sqlite] Best practices for forward conversion of database formats?

2018-08-30 Thread Randall Smith
This is not strictly a SQLite question, though in my case it is. Any application that involves a "persistent" database, i.e., one where the data is long-lived and expected to exist and evolve over time, sooner or later has the issue of moving customers from a V1 database to a V2 database.