On 7 Dec 2010, at 10:31am, CDN Mark wrote: > newbie question, what I'd like to do is improve/add columns for a sadly > lacking database for a commercial proramme. What I'd like to know is it > possible to add columns to an existing database without causing problems, add > extra info into these columns, and then somehow create a viewer of the > database.. It woud have to only be a straight viewer, no editing features > needed.
Yes. For these things you need a programmer. If you're not one yourself, you might want to hire one. If you think that your changes would be useful to some good percentage of current users of the program, why not contact the company that produces the program ? It may be happy to include your changes in the next version of the program. > I did add a column, I think successfuly, but it went before the primary key > column, does this matter? Does it matter to what ? It's possible that the application that mainly uses the database will be terribly confused by this, since one common way to insert new data relies on there being a specific number of columns in a specific order. Introducing a new column without changing the program to match may cause the program to fail in interesting ways. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
