It says that there was a syntax error in my command.

Thanks for the info on the ?s. Can imagine why its used, this looks a
mess!
Will try this now

On Sep 3, 2:51 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
>   What does it mean that adb uninstall doesn't work? What is the error
> message?
>
> Are you using your actual package name instead of <package>?
>
> The "question mark" syntax is for being able to specify SQL statement
> parameters separately from the statement itself. This separates the SQL
> statement logic from the values. This is beneficial in several ways,
> which I will not go into right now.
>
> By using a question mark you're telling SQL that there is a value in
> this place, but it's specified separately, in the array (the last
> parameter).
>
> So you'd have:
>
> db.execSQL(
>         "INSERT INTO tbl_events VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)",
>         new Object[] { entryID, eventName, date,<omitted>.... , distance, 
> totalScore }
> );
>
> Better yet, specify which columns the values are for, like this:
>
> db.execSQL(
>         "INSERT INTO tbl_events (entryID, eventName, date,<omitted>) " +
>         " VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)",
>         new Object[] { entryID, eventName, date,<omitted>.... , distance, 
> totalScore }
> );
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 03.09.2010 17:38, kingh32 пишет:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I cant get adb uninstall to work
> > I'm doing this
>
> > adb uninstall<package>
> > I've also tried
>
> > adb uninstall [-k]<package>  and adb uninstall []<package>
>
> > In the mean time I've created another database and tried to populate
> > it with the new queries but it still tells me that I'm trying to
> > populate an 8 column table with 9 columns.
>
> > final String CREATE_TABLE_EVENT = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
> > tbl_events("
> >                            + "entryID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY , "
> >                    + "eventName TEXT,"
> >                    + "date TEXT,"
> >                    + "eventType TEXT,"
> >                    + "numRounds INTEGER,"
> >                    + "shotsPerRound INTEGER"
> >                    + "shooter TEXT,"
> >                    + "distance TEXT,"
> >                    + "totalScore INTEGER);";
>
> > String INSERT_INTO_EVENT = "INSERT INTO tbl_events VALUES"
> >                             +"(1,'"
> >                             + eventName
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + date
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + eventType
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + numRounds
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + shotsPerRound
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + shooter
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + distance
> >                             +"','"
> >                             + totalScore +"');";
>
> > I've looked at these over and over and there are definitely 9 fields
> > in each.
>
> > I would like to change them to look like your example above but I dont
> > really understand this construct...
>
> > db.execSQL("INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(?, ?, ?)", new String[]
> > { valA, valB, valC});
>
> > What would I replace the question marks with - sorry if thats a really
> > silly question!
> > On Sep 3, 1:35 pm, Kostya Vasilyev<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >>    I believe that one of the columns is still missing, so you get this
> >> error at one of these lines:
>
> >> cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("blah"))
>
> >> Where getColumnIndex() returns -1, because the column is not in the
> >> query results, and getString() is being asked to get the data for column
> >> -1, which is invalid.
>
> >> - Change your getColumnIndex to getColumnIndexOrThrow, this will let you
> >> see which column is missing in the query
>
> >> - Cache column indices outisde the loop
>
> >> - Before running again, uninstall the application with "adb uninstall"
> >> to force the database to be recreated
>
> >> -- Kostya
>
> >> 03.09.2010 15:24, kingh32 пишет:
>
> >>> E/CursorWindow( 1354): Bad request for field slot 0,-1. numRows = 1,
> >>> numColumns
> >>> = 2
> >> --
> >> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget 
> >> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com
>
> --
> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget 
> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com

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