While I greatly appreciate the help I've gotten on SQLite in general, I still wonder about the last part of my questions below. Can anyone recommend a good book for learning to use SQLite? What about these that I found on Amazon.com The Definitive Guide to SQLite by Mike Owens Using SQLite by Jay A. Kreibich The SQL Guide to SQLite by Rick F. van der Lans I only know a little about SQL in general and even less about SQLite, and I could probably use help. I learned how to program in Visual Studio.NET 2003 from a book Sam's Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic.NET 2003. I'm now using Visual Basic 2010 Express (and have ordered a book on it). Bob Keeland
--- On Sat, 9/11/10, Olaf Schmidt <s...@online.de> wrote: From: Olaf Schmidt <s...@online.de> Subject: Re: [sqlite] New to SQLite and I have a question To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 6:00 PM "Bob Keeland" <keela...@yahoo.com> schrieb > I am new to using SQLite but think that it may be good > for a project that I'm working on. I do my programming > in Visual Basic and don't know any C\C++. > Is there any problem with connecting with SQLite from > Visual Basic? No. Though the links Simon gave you, are for wrappers which "connect" you to the (VB).NET world. If it is "classic VB" you're using (up to VB-Version 5/6) - then you can also take a look at the COM-Wrapper- section in the SQLite-wiki: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=SqliteWrappers >... > > My main question - Does this sound like SQLite would > be appropriate? Yes, from what you wrote, there should be no problems - does not seem like a "heavy scenario" - and could even fit into memory completely (at least on Desktop-Systems), and SQLite supports "InMemory-Mode". As to expanding your solution to Handheld-Devices ... SQLite is working fine there (although many Devs prefer working at the lower "C-language-level" then) - but as far as I know, Robert Simpsons .NET-wrapper (http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com) should work there as well... as long as you're targetting devices, which support the .NET-mobile framework (then you could work further with your language-binding as long as it is the VB.NET-basic-dialect and not VB-Classic). A broader approach, to bring your "search-services" to these devices would be a "Web-hosted one", since most of the newer Smartphones come with a decent Browser (and often with permanent Internet- connection nowadays). > I've been using Access as my database up to now... As said, if VB.NET, then http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com is a good recommendation (working over ADO.NET)... and in case we're talking about VB-Classic and existing experience with "normal (COM-) ADO" - then my wrapper at: http://www.thecommon.net/2.html is probably the one with the greatest resemblance to ADO-behaviour - not much to learn anew. But if your GUI (for the Desktop-Version) is not too complex, I'd develop a "unified solution" (for both, Desktop and HandHeld) as a WebApp ... Olaf _______________________________________________ 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