On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Erich93063 <erich93...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to create a SQLite database if it doesn't exist, which I
> know I can use 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS", but more importantly, I
> need to initially populate the database with seed data if it doesn't
> exist. If I use CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS, it will obviously create
> the table if it doesn't exist, but if I follow that up with insert
> statements, those would ALWAYS get ran. I only want to enter the seed
> data if the database does not exist. ???
>
>

Maybe something like

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [newTable] AS SELECT * FROM DataToPopulate

DataToPopulate can be a table from the db or temporary table created for
example when the program starts.

Max Vlasov
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