On 5/11/2011 4:21 PM, cricketfan wrote:
> How can you say that the UPDATE was successful when the
> record you were looking for does not even exist in the DB?

Your statement says: update all records that meet condition X. SQLite 
did exactly that. How is this not a success? A failure would be if you 
could show a record that met condition X but was not updated.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
-- 
Igor Tandetnik

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