On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:42:15 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:28:27 UTC, CharlesM wrote:
If you're using SQLite you don't need to specify the size of
the columns, for what I gather it's useless for this DB.
Yep, this is mostly descriptive. Types in column declarations
have mostly the same effect.
And if I'm not mistaken it usually preferable to use TEXT for
strings.
In SQLite? How so?
I don't remember where I read, but it's because the type
affinity, in fact in the and it doesn't matter because VARCHAR
will be TEXT in the end: https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
So at least you save space in your script. :)
I'm a bit rusty with SQLite, but I was on a project a year ago,
and I had this big table and trying with/without NULL, I got a
better performance without it.
By the way I found this: https://blog.paddlefish.net/?p=885
