Care to show all of your steps? Not that my BS flag is waving but you're correct that this is very odd.
What OS? What version sqlite? Shell from website or did you compile? Local file? Does it persist across a reboot? Are you running ANY 3rd party software? Try uninstalling your anti-virus. D:\>mkdir dennis D:\>cd dennis D:\dennis>dir Volume in drive D is Apps Volume Serial Number is C43B-2252 Directory of D:\dennis 06/29/2012 07:24 AM <DIR> . 06/29/2012 07:24 AM <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 202,760,232,960 bytes free D:\dennis>sqlite3 mydbname.ext SQLite version 3.7.9 2011-11-01 00:52:41 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> pragma journal_mode=wal; wal sqlite> create table t(a); sqlite> insert into t values(1); sqlite> .quit D:\dennis>dir Volume in drive D is Apps Volume Serial Number is C43B-2252 Directory of D:\dennis 06/29/2012 07:25 AM <DIR> . 06/29/2012 07:25 AM <DIR> .. 06/29/2012 07:25 AM 2,048 mydbname.ext 1 File(s) 2,048 bytes 2 Dir(s) 202,760,228,864 bytes free D:\dennis>del mydbname.ext D:\dennis>sqlite3 mydbname.ext SQLite version 3.7.9 2011-11-01 00:52:41 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> .dump PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF; BEGIN TRANSACTION; COMMIT; sqlite> .quit D:\dennis>dir Volume in drive D is Apps Volume Serial Number is C43B-2252 Directory of D:\dennis 06/29/2012 07:25 AM <DIR> . 06/29/2012 07:25 AM <DIR> .. 06/29/2012 07:25 AM 0 mydbname.ext 1 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 202,760,232,960 bytes free D:\dennis>del mydbname.ext Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Advanced Analytics Directorate Advanced GEOINT Solutions Operating Unit Northrop Grumman Information Systems ________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] on behalf of Dennis Volodomanov [i...@psunrise.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 6:47 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] An interesting (strange) issue with selects Ok, tried using the shell and the result is the same as using my app. What I did is: 1) delete the database file ("mydbname.ext") from the DOS prompt, make sure the file is not there 2) run "sqlite3 .\mydbname.ext" from within that same folder, same DOS prompt 3) type .dump 4) see entries in this DB, which should be impossible, since the file wasn't there and I've issued no commands using the shell tool Weird? Dennis _______________________________________________ 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