Thank you for the reply Thomas, I found that an extra space would not let me set the field to a value. I went over your code, and I managed to get the script working for me. I am looking through ther bind functions to see the benefit.
Thanks again, My sqlite3 is working good now, since I know more about what I am doing, Roman On Wednesday 05 April 2006 05:59 am, Thomas Chust wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Roman wrote: > > [...] > > I have tried > > > > sqlite> select * from loc_configuration; > > 0|0|18|52|86|4|24|22|51|116|39|15|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0 > > > > The blob is the one before the last one, and the length is the very last > > one The serials are second, third , fourth and fifth columns. > > > > sqlite> UPDATE loc_configuration SET loc_authorization_code_length = 18, > > loc_authorization_code = X'000102030405060708' WHERE loc_serial_0=0 AND > > loc_serial_1=18 AND loc_serial_2=52 AND loc_serial_3=86; > > sqlite> select * from loc_configuration; > > > > 0|0|18|52|86|4|24|22|51|116|39|15|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||0 > > > > I get no response or error from sqlite3. > > [...] > > Hello Roman, > > I wonder why your loc_authorization_code_length column still seems to be 0 > after the update, but otherwise this behaviour looks normal and correct. > Here is what I did to check: > > $ sqlite3 > SQLite version 3.3.4 > Enter ".help" for instructions > sqlite> CREATE TABLE loc_configuration( > ...> loc_serial_0 INTEGER, loc_serial_1 INTEGER, > ...> loc_serial_2 INTEGER, loc_serial_3 INTEGER, > ...> loc_authorization_code BLOB, > ...> loc_authorization_code_length INTEGER); > sqlite> INSERT INTO loc_configuration VALUES(0, 18, 52, 86, 0, 0); > sqlite> SELECT * FROM loc_configuration; > 0|18|52|86|0|0 > sqlite> UPDATE loc_configuration > ...> SET loc_authorization_code_length = 18, > ...> loc_authorization_code = X'000102030405060708' > ...> WHERE loc_serial_0 = 0 AND loc_serial_1 = 18 > ...> AND loc_serial_2 = 52 AND loc_serial_3 = 86; > sqlite> SELECT * FROM loc_configuration; > 0|18|52|86||18 > sqlite> SELECT length(loc_authorization_code) FROM loc_configuration; > 9 > sqlite> SELECT quote(loc_authorization_code) FROM loc_configuration; > X'000102030405060708' > > Note that the BLOB column does not contain printable characters and is > therefore output as an empty string in the normal output mode, but you can > always get a quoted version with the quote function. Anyway you should > not have any quoting problems if you are accessing your database from C or > C++. > > cu, > Thomas