On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote:

>
> On 9 Jan 2016, at 1:18pm, Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> but only after at least one sqlite3_step() occurred.
> >
> > It will work before any step, but indeed the statement needs to be
> prepared.
> > I need to know before stepping, but it can do that.
>
> For a SELECT which returns no rows I presume it returns the number of
> columns asked for.


It does. i use this in a db abstraction layer to fetch column names without
needing to fetch data.

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