On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > Yet strangely, the ability to obtain the statements used to create the schema > is something I find very useful in quite a few utilities. If you could > depend on them being in a standard format they'd be even more useful.
I like the fact that SQLite3 preserves almost all of the CREATE statements as in the original (only the first two keywords, and whitespace around them, change at all). But I think I too would appreciate a normalized form of create statements. Even more so I'd appreciate a relational view of the schema. But that's just pipe dream stuff. > MySQL has a way to obtain the data in statement form too. Imagine a command > like > > SELECT AS INSERT COMMANDS * FROM myTable WHERE joinDate > '2001' > > which returns one field of text per record, with each piece of text being the > INSERT command required to reproduce it: > > INSERT INTO myTable (id,name,address,joinDate) VALUES (123,'Fred Savage','12 > Rowantree Crescent','20020115') The SQLite3 shell lets you do this. Use .mode insert! I agree it's awesome. Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
