sqlite3

How to tell if Python SQLite database connection or cursor is closed?

Let's say that you have the following code: import sqlite3 conn = sqlite3.connect('mydb') cur = conn.cursor() # some database actions cur.close() conn.close() # more code below If I try to use the conn or cur objects later on, how could I tell that they are closed? I cannot find a .isclosed() method or anything like it. ...

Calling SQLite database to update UITableView.

Hi! I've been asking lately about Obj-C circular buffer objects, assuming that would be the better way to control tons of data on a UITableView. I have found a solution as far as Circular buffer objects go, but I've been wondering about maybe a better, faster and much more memory efficient solution: Calling my SQLite DB to update the U...

FULL-TEXT Search in SQLite

Simple question: does SQLite support FULL-TEXT searches? If not, is there any way I can implement that feature? ...

Should I put my faith in SQLite transactions to avoid file corruption?

Short version If my process is terminated in the middle of a transaction, or while SQLite is committing a transaction, what are the chances that the database file will be corrupted? Long version My application uses an SQLite database for storage (directly, not via Core Data). I'm working on a new version of the application which will ...

SQLite query runs 10 times slower than MSAccess query

I have a 800MB MS Access database that I migrated to SQLite. The structure of the database is as follows (the SQLite database, after migration, is around 330MB): The table Occurrence has 1,600,000 records. The table looks like: CREATE TABLE Occurrence ( SimulationID INTEGER, SimRunID INTEGER, OccurrenceID INTEGER, Occurren...

SQLite Virtual Table Match Escape character

Heya, I'm working on an applications where the indices are stored in a SQLite FTS3 virtual table. We are implementing full text matches which means we send through queries like: select * from blah where term match '<insert term here>' That's all well and good until the term we want to match contains a hyphen in case the SQLite virtua...

Limit a sqlite Table's Maximum Number of Rows

I am looking to implement a sort of 'activity log' table where actions a user does are stored in a sqlite table and then presented to the user so that they can see the latest activity they have done. However, naturally, I don't feel it is necessary to keep every single bit of history, so I am wondering if there is a way to configure the ...

Using savepoints in python sqlite3

I'm attempting to use savepoints with the sqlite3 module built into python 2.6. Every time I try to release or rollback a savepoint, I always recieve an OperationalError: no such savepoint. What am I missing? python version: 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] PySQLite version: 2.4.1 sqlite3...

iPhone Core Data does not fetch any data from Sqlite3

I copied a filled, existing sqlite3-file to my project; it is found (I check that with - (void)createEditableCopyOfDatabaseIfNeeded { NSLog(@"Checking if we have to create editable copy of database"); // First, test for existence. BOOL success; NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; NSError *er...

Inserted date of record in sqlite3 database?

Hello Guys, I inserted a record in sqlite3 database. I want to know the date on which that table inserted in database. Thanks in advanced. ...

Inserting PDFs in SQLite

I am developing offline implementation of an iphone app. I cannot insert pdf files into sqlite DB. can anyone help me to insert pdf/xls into sqlite DB. Thanks in advance! ...

sqlite3 'database is locked' won't go away with retries

I have a sqlite3 database that is accessed by a few threads (3-4). I am aware of the general limitations of sqlite3 with regards to concurrency as stated http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6 , but I am convinced that is not the problem. All of the threads both read and write from this database. Whenever I do a write, I have the following c...

How to improve time performance for retrieving huge data from the database ?

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated { AppDelegate *appDelegate = (AppDelegate *) [ [UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; List = [appDelegate getList]; } Here getList is a method that gets the 29000 number of list from the sqlite3 database.I am getting the list but it takes very huge time to respond in the device. Is ...

Codeigniter ORM SQLite

hi, I phpandstuff have a wonderful tut on setting up the doctrine ORM and CodeIgniter, my question is setting it up with SQLite got me kinda confused, SQLite does not require a dsn like all the others so where all that is required what do I do? And for the defaults that are set with MySQL for example: [code] Doctrine_Manager::getIn...

Matching two big SQLITE3 tables

I have two tables: t1: f1, f2, f3, f4, rowid_t2, sts t2: f1, f2, f3, f4, sts with different amounts of records that exceeds 10 millions. I need to match them using f1, f2 and f3 of each table as the keys, the relation is that one record of t1 can match with one record in t2 or many records of t1 can match with one record in t2, the m...

Code is bypassing Array creation Loop from a sqlite database

my NSMutableArray creation code is being bypassed altogether for some reason. in theory it is supposed to create an NSMutableArray based on an sqlite database. There is only one warning message and no errors. what am I missing? the implementation file is: #import "iProspectFresno LiteAppDelegate.h" #import "MainViewController.h" #import...

Connecting to a SQLite database from visual studio 2008

I did write some apps in the past that used access en sqlserver databases. These databases come with wizards however to help you create a connection to it. Now, I want to add a new db connection in the Server explorer of visual studio 2008 to SQLite. I referenced the System.Data.SQLite assembly from phxsoftware. I am able to select the...

Rails debugging in production environment

I'm creating a Twitter application, and every time user updates the page it reloads the newest messages from Twitter and saves them to local database, unless they have already been created before. This works well in development environment (database: sqlite3), but in production environment (mysql) it always creates messages again, even t...

Modify a Column's Type in sqlite3

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to sqlite 3 and just now I had to add a column to an existing table I had. I went about doing that by doing: ALTER TABLE thetable ADD COLUMN category;. Of course, I forgot to specify that column's type. The first thing I was thinking about doing was dropping that column and then re-adding it. However, it seems t...

Local installation of python

I want to install python to my local direcotory: ./configure --prefix=/home/alex/local-install && make && make install When i import sqlite3 i get the following: ImportError: No module named _sqlite3 the reason: there is no _sqlite3.so in /home/alex/local-install/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload. How can i force python to build bindings ...