That's good to now about the automatic rowid. I can certainly create a new column in phonebook that shows the row number with id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT. However, I'd really would like to do the same thing in a view.
Simon Slavin wrote: > On 29 May 2010, at 1:19am, Jim Terman wrote: > > >> CREATE VIEW phonebook_order AS SELECT first_name, last_name, >> phone_number FROM phonebook ORDER BY last_name, first_name; >> >> Now on the table phonebook I can do a query: >> >> SELECT rowid FROM phonebook where last_name = "Smith" and first_name = >> "John"; >> >> which will gave me the row number of John Smith. >> >> How do I do this for the view phonebook_order? >> > > Never depend on a rowid field you do not create yourself. Although you know > SQLite creates them internally do not depend on them. So equip phonebook > with an explicit INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT field called, perhaps, id > and use that where you want it. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > 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
