On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:02:37PM -0600, Dennis Cote scratched on the wall: > P Kishor wrote:
> > How do I get the number of rows that were deleted by the above DELETE? > > Do I first do a SELECT to find out the number of matches before doing > > the DELETE? > > You don't need to the trigger fires for each row that is deleted, ...unless the command is "DELETE FROM <table>;" with no WHERE clause. In that case the table is truncated and no triggers are fired. To avoid that, either manually clear the row-count for that table or use "DELETE FROM <table> WHERE 1;". It will be much slower, but it will delete the rows one at a time, calling the trigger on each one. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
