Hi, yes, creating a table will duplicate your data. However, a view will not:
create view CurrentLanguage as select * from SomeLanguage; see http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createview.html Martin Shaun Seckman (Firaxis) wrote: > Happy Friday everyone! > > I've got several tables each representing a specific > language which my application uses to access translated strings. It'd > be extremely useful if I were able to alias a table as "CurrentLanguage" > as opposed to directly referencing the actual name. This saves me from > having to tweak my lookup statements on the fly to change the table name > being accessed. Is it possible to perform such an alias? I know that I > could execute the line "CREATE TABLE CurrentLanguage AS SELECT * from > SomeLanguage" but will that duplicate all the data or just reference the > data? I'd rather not take the memory hit as these tables are quite > large. Suggestions? > > > > -Shaun > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
