hi- i was hoping to get a little feedback on an idea i had. the create table statement can get complex with its variable number field constraints and table constraints etc. etc. when i first tackled the problem i tried to parse it. now i have a different idea. what if i viewed the create table statement as a group of tables with records . then when i am finished adding records to the structure db tables i could call a routine to write the create table statement based on the structure db database for that particular table. a problem i see with this design is someone with a table already designed would not want to use a program like this because they have all ready generated the table structure in sqlite_master.sql. i'll probably be the only user anyways. i thought i could use delphi personal edition and libsql to create an interface in this manner to insert,update,delete,select table structure data. is this a really bad idea? i have to try something. changing the structure is the worst part of my program :-( thanks, jim
Have a look here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/SQL-Routine/
That's part of a project I'm working on. With it, each database table, as well as every other kind of thing you could possibly put in a schema or use with a database, is represented as a cross-referenced hierarchy of atomic-value nodes.
You can create and manipulate your "create table statement" by adding, removing, and altering the nodes. Then the create can be generated from them when done.
-- Darren Duncan
