You could but I can't think of a reason to do that offhand. As Mark said, most sqlite activity occurs in memory so unless you have a huge db that results in a lot of paging activity, you're basically working in memory anyway.
If you really wanted to copy a disk based db to an in-memory db, you could use the CREATE TABLE AS option to copy each table over. It allows you specify a SELECT statement where the the named columns are created in the new table and the data for those columns is copied over from the selected table to the new one. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > On 10/17/2015 12:25 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Sorry, I should have looked at your syntax more closely. > > > > You can't open an existing database as an in memory database. If you > want > > to open an in memory database, the revopendatabase syntax is > > revOpenDatabase("sqlite",":memory:") and it will be a brand new, empty > > database with no tables. The syntax you used would have created a disk > > database file named /Users/Dev/Documents/Ratings.db3:memory: with no > tables > > in it, hence the error message you got. > > > > Hope that explains it better. > > > > Could you create a new, empty, in memory data base and open the disk > based existing database and copy its contents to the new memory > database? Does sqlLite provide any easy command for copying a database > or the contents of a database to another? > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode