On 27 Jun 2012, at 5:00pm, Maury Markowitz <maury.markow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on getting the Mac version of the SQLite ODCB connector fully 
> functional. I'm having some problems getting examples of lots of different 
> data types - for instance, my northwind copy has a decimal stored as a 
> varchar.

Note that SQLite is somewhat weird in that you can declare a column as being of 
one type, but then put another type of variable in it.  Example below.

> Does anyone have a small test DB they would be willing to part with so I 
> could see lots of different data types and what happens when they come 
> through the adaptor?

Can I suggest you make up your own using the command-line shell ?  Then you can 
mess with it to your heart's content.  cd to a folder you want your database 
file in and use the commend-line shell supplied with OS X to create your own 
database.

cd ~/Desktop
sqlite3 testdb.sqlite
CREATE TABLE testTable (textVar TEXT, intVar INTEGER, realVar REAL);
INSERT INTO testTable VALUES ('this is text', 1, 1);
INSERT INTO testTable VALUES (2.2, 'and this is text two', 2.2);
SELECT * FROM testTable;
.quit

You should find a copy of the shell tool as '/usr/bin/sqlite3' which should be 
in your default path.  Apart from the very important '.quit', lots of 
documentation for it can be found at

<http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.html>

If you need a more up-to-date version of the shell tool, perhaps because you 
want to use FOREIGN KEYS, you can download a precompiled Mac version from the 
SQLite download page.

Simon.
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