After reading http://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html, I think my query meets the requirements for index use with the LIKE operator:
The column is varchar(75) and so TEXT affinity. The column uses Latin-1 characters exclusively. The wildcard appears at the far right end of the string literal, e.g. myColumn LIKE 'foo%' The escape clause does not appear. Case-sensitivity=false; collation-sequence is default NO-CASE QUESTION: A question, however, on the Latin-1, ASCII range requirement: this is a column requirement and not a database requirement, correct? I have several columns with text affinity; one is strict ASCII and represents characters outside the ASCII range as html-entities (e.g. "ü") and the others store the unicode characters. The database encoding is UTF-8. My query with the LIKE operator worked instantaneously in MS-Access, BTW, where I originally had the database. After exporting to delimited text and reimporting into SQLite, most queries in SQLite are just as fast, executing in under a second. But this query with the LIKE operator takes 40 seconds because of the full-table scan. Thanks _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
