On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:22:02AM +0100, Simon Slavin scratched on the wall:
> On 3 Apr 2012, at 12:27am, Webdude <webd...@thewebdudes.com> wrote:

> > Does anyone know if SQLite stores additional unique internal 
> > information such as timestamps etc. that would affect this, and
> > if so could these "additional to the data" variable features be
> > disabled in any way?
> 
> SQLite files do contain some metadata like row numbers and internal page
> hashes, but nothing like timestamps unless the programmer generated them
> in software.

  While there are no timestamps, SQLite does keep a number of counters
  and other meta-data in the file header page that are not directly
  under programmer control.  This includes a "change counter" that gets
  incremeted with every write.

  http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html

   -j

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