On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:13:44 -0500
P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no idea why you would say that. It works just fine.
sqlite CREATE TABLE UPCs (UPC TEXT);
sqlite INSERT INTO UPCs VALUES ('043000205563');
sqlite SELECT * FROM UPCs;
UPC
043000205563
sqlite
Oh, by
I, (or more to the point, SQLite) can't seem to retain leading zeros
on numbers.
The receiving field is defined as CHAR;
I'm using the SQLite Manager in Firefox.
I've also tried sqlite3 from the command line.
Here's a typical (and minimal) statement:
UPDATE UPCs SET UPC=043000205563;
UPDATE UPCs
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ted Rolle, Jr. ster...@gmail.com wrote:
I, (or more to the point, SQLite) can't seem to retain leading zeros
on numbers.
The receiving field is defined as CHAR;
I'm using the SQLite Manager in Firefox.
I've also tried sqlite3 from the command line.
Here's a
On 6 Jul 2010, at 11:10pm, Ted Rolle, Jr. wrote:
The receiving field is defined as CHAR; [snip]
SQLite has no such type. Define the fields as TEXT instead:
http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
Then try 'UPDATE UPCs SET UPC=043000205563;' and see what you get.
Last question: is this an
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:13:44 -0500
P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
sqlite CREATE TABLE UPCs (UPC TEXT);
sqlite INSERT INTO UPCs VALUES ('043000205563');
sqlite SELECT * FROM UPCs;
UPC
043000205563
sqlite
I did as you said with sqlite and it worked perfectly. Thank you.
The receiving field is defined as CHAR; [snip]
SQLite has no such type. Define the fields as TEXT instead:
Simon, please don't confuse poor users. SQLite will work perfectly and
indistinguishably well with both CHAR and TEXT. Please read the link
you gave more carefully (hint: bullet number 2
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Pavel Ivanov paiva...@gmail.com wrote:
The receiving field is defined as CHAR; [snip]
SQLite has no such type. Define the fields as TEXT instead:
Simon, please don't confuse poor users. SQLite will work perfectly and
indistinguishably well with both CHAR and
So, because type VLADIVOSTOK is not recognized, sqlite tries to
convert any value entered, even if it is delimited with single quotes,
to something recognizable. I guess it starts with INT, and since it is
able to convert '043000205563' to integer, that is what it does. In
the case of
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:45:50PM -0400, Pavel Ivanov scratched on the wall:
Leading zeros in the number can never be significant,
While that's true for SQL values, it isn't true in the general case.
C programmers and old-school UNIX folks tend to get very nervous
about leading zeros.
