Thanks, probably a foreign key would handle the example I gave. I'm really asking the general question what is possible within the CHECK constraint? Is it possible to base the check on a SELECT statement on another table? Pete
In the example, what I am trying to check is if the value of the column is On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:00 AM, <sqlite-users-requ...@sqlite.org> wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:29:52 +0100 > From: Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@sqlite.org> > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Help with CHECK Constraint > Message-ID: <92bf7b2e-fe21-4cd3-a69c-44573b621...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Feb 19, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Pete wrote: > > > is it possible to > > check if the value of Col1 exists in a column in a different table? > > Perhaps you are looking for foreign constraints: > > http://www.sqlite.org/foreignkeys.html > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
