2009/7/5 BareFeet <list....@tandb.com.au>: >>> > Hi Simon, > >>> How can I get just the column headers without all the result rows? >> >> Turn headers on, then perform a search which gives no results. > > Unfortunately, the sqlite3 command line tool does not show the headers > when there are no result rows. In any case, it's nit possible to > convert an ad hoc query (ie not known beforehand) into one that > returns no rows.
Add "limit 0" to the end of the select statement > >> It's difficult in the command-line tool, but easy using function calls >> since there's a function call specially intended for it: >> >> <http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/column_name.html> > > It would be great to see a pragma or built in SQL function that > returned the column headers of a given query. This is only a limitation in the shell (or using sqlite3_exec); column headers can be queried from prepared statements as already pointed out. > >> > Thanks, > Tom > BareFeet Rgds, Simon _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
