Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > If that's a copy-paste from a default sqlite3 session, the single quotes > are part of the value. i.e. you have four-character values, such as > "'ID'". Jay, That's because I used single quotes to delimit strings in the original .csv file. Re

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Simon Slavin
On 14 Sep 2010, at 2:57pm, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:52:02AM -0700, Rich Shepard scratched on the wall: >> sqlite> select distinct state from Companies; >> 'ID' >> 'NV' >> 'OR' >> 'UT' >> 'WA' > > If that's a copy-paste from a default sqlite3 session, the single > qu

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Corke
On 14 September 2010 14:52, Rich Shepard wrote: > sqlite> select distinct state from Companies; > 'ID' > 'NV' > 'OR' > 'UT' > 'WA' It looks like the values in your db have quotes in them. sqlite> create table companies(state char(2), name char(10)); sqlite> insert into companies values('OR','one

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:52:02AM -0700, Rich Shepard scratched on the wall: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Paul Corke wrote: > > > What do you get from: > > > > select distinct state from companies; > > Paul, > > sqlite> select distinct state from Companies; > 'ID' > 'NV' > 'OR' > 'UT' > 'WA' If th

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:45:24AM -0700, Rich Shepard scratched on the wall: >I cannot select rows from a table using the WHERE clause and cannot find > my error. Perhaps others will see what I miss. > >The table, Companies, has 1500+ rows. One column is defined as >state CHAR(2),

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Paul Corke wrote: > What do you get from: > > select distinct state from companies; Paul, sqlite> select distinct state from Companies; 'ID' 'NV' 'OR' 'UT' 'WA' That's why this inability to use the WHERE clause completely escapes my understanding. Rich _

Re: [sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Corke
On 14 September 2010 14:45, Rich Shepard wrote: > sqlite> select * from Companies where state = 'OR'; What do you get from: select distinct state from companies; Paul. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bi

[sqlite] WHERE Clause Not Working On Database

2010-09-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I cannot select rows from a table using the WHERE clause and cannot find my error. Perhaps others will see what I miss. The table, Companies, has 1500+ rows. One column is defined as state CHAR(2), but the select statement seeking all rows where state = 'OR' for example returns nothi