[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 th

Re: [sqlite] Create VIEW passing despite invalid column name specified

2018-07-28 Thread Will Parsons
On Thursday, 26 Jul 2018 7:58 PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 7/26/18, Tomasz Kot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Beneath sql shall throw an error on CREATE VIEW statement (as invalid >> column is specified), but it passes (SQLite 3.23.1). > > The error is deferred until you try to use the view. The

Re: [sqlite] Round-tripping SQLite back and forth between text representation.

2018-07-11 Thread Will Parsons
On Tuesday, 10 Jul 2018 2:27 PM -0400, Randall Smith wrote: > My underlying question is "can text-comparing two DB dumps be used > to determine what has changed?" I don't know if it will meet your needs, but I've written a script for my own purposes to compare DB changes. Since it's fairly sho

Re: [sqlite] Fixes to the transliteration table in ext/misc/spellfix.c

2018-03-31 Thread Will Parsons
On Friday, 30 Mar 2018 11:38 AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-03-30 11:28, Marcin Ciura wrote: > >> { 0x0426, 0x54, 0x63, 0x00, 0x00 }, /* Ц to Tc */ >> { 0x0446, 0x74, 0x63, 0x00, 0x00 }, /* ц to tc */ >> >> This Cyrillic letter is usually transliterated as Ts. Unless "Tc" is >>

Re: [sqlite] How many AUTOINCREMENT tables are in your schema?

2018-03-16 Thread Will Parsons
On Friday, 16 Mar 2018 11:37 AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > This is a survey, the results of which will help us to make SQLite faster. > > How many tables in your schema(s) use AUTOINCREMENT? 0 -- Will ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@maili

Re: [sqlite] Why isn't my time formatting working?

2017-03-10 Thread Will Parsons
On Wednesday, 8 Mar 2017 3:40 PM -0500, Paul Sanderson wrote: > The vast majority of dates I see in SQLite databases are unix epoch integer ^ > times (seconds since 1/1/1980) with unix milli seconds a close second. ^ > Efficient to store, sort and do date arithmet

[sqlite] warning on glob [was: SQLite3 Tutorial error]

2017-01-07 Thread Will Parsons
On Friday, 6 Jan 2017 3:48 PM -0500, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > On Friday, 6 January, 2017 12:49, James K. Lowden > wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:23:06 +1100 >> "dandl" wrote: >> >> > Unix globbing for Linux is defined here: >> > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/glob.7.html. AFAICT Sqli

[sqlite] using sqlite extensions within Ruby

2016-12-08 Thread Will Parsons
I don't usually see questions about using SQLite3 from Ruby here, so I hope this is not out of place. Ruby is my normal programming language of choice nowadays, and I've been very happy with the sqlite3 ruby gem to use SQLite3 within my programs. I'd now like to make use of the SQLite3 session ex

[sqlite] Native sqlite4 on FreeBSD

2015-09-12 Thread Will Parsons
On Friday, 11 Sep 2015 10:12 AM -0400, Valentin Davydov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: >> >> Use gmake to compile. > > It didn't work either. Finally I've just installed some brand new linux > on a nearby virtual machine, made there make -f Makefile.linux

[sqlite] design problem involving trigger

2015-08-24 Thread Will Parsons
On Monday, 24 Aug 2015 2:46 AM -0400, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> It's theoretically possible, but in that case I would be content to >> force a difference in the title. It should be possible to have the >> following: >> >> 'History of Scotland' | -> 'A. Jones' >> 'History of Scotland' | -> 'T. Smit

[sqlite] design problem involving trigger

2015-08-22 Thread Will Parsons
On Saturday, 22 Aug 2015 1:05 PM -0400, R.Smith wrote: > > > On 2015-08-21 11:23 PM, Will Parsons wrote: >> On 21 Aug 2015, R.Smith wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-08-21 04:47 AM, Will Parsons wrote: >>>> I'm working on a program that involves a catalogue

[sqlite] design problem involving trigger

2015-08-21 Thread Will Parsons
On 21 Aug 2015, Scott Robison wrote: > Another consideration: it is possible that two different anonymous books > are indeed different books. It is also possible a given "author" releases a > new rewritten book with the same name. I'm thinking of the Hardy Boys > series in particular from my person

[sqlite] design problem involving trigger

2015-08-21 Thread Will Parsons
On 21 Aug 2015, R.Smith wrote: > > > On 2015-08-21 04:47 AM, Will Parsons wrote: >> I'm working on a program that involves a catalogue of books. Part of >> the database schema looks like this: >> >> create table Books(id integer primary key, >>

[sqlite] design problem involving trigger

2015-08-21 Thread Will Parsons
I'm working on a program that involves a catalogue of books. Part of the database schema looks like this: create table Books(id integer primary key, title text collate nocase not null, author references Authors(id), ... u

Re: [sqlite] SQLite version 3.8.6 coming soon

2014-08-07 Thread Will Parsons
Richard Hipp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:33 PM, James K. Lowden > wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:40:43 -0400 >> Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> > > >> > > PS: backward compatibility, no s, no? >> > > >> > >> > A google search shows that you see it both ways - with and without the >> > "s". I'

Re: [sqlite] capturing and testing a hot journal

2014-07-15 Thread Will Parsons
mm.w wrote: >> Can someone please get this a*h*l* banned? -- Will ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

[sqlite] how to detect database change made by another application

2013-12-14 Thread Will Parsons
I have two applications that access the same database and that can run at the same time. If changes are made to the database by one application, I would like the other application to update its display to reflect the change. The total_changes() function only works from a single connexion so doesn