Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-05 Thread Stephen Chrzanowski
Simon; Interesting approach that I'd forgotten about. The tables aren't "variable". This is a "beginning of the project, one-time execution" thing I was hoping to get at database initialization. Meaning, 0-byte SQLite file size kind of initialization, with not a single line of application code

Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread Simon Slavin
On 5 Aug 2018, at 2:40am, Stephen Chrzanowski wrote: > I'm making a small database for a game, and a bunch of the tables follow > the same kind of naming convention due to normalization, like > > {Name_Of_Information}s > {Name_Of_Information}ID as Integer > {Name_Of_Information}Name as Char >

Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 21:40:53 -0400, Stephen Chrzanowski wrote: > I'm making a small database for a game, and a bunch of the tables follow > the same kind of naming convention due to normalization, like > > {Name_Of_Information}s > {Name_Of_Information}ID as Integer > {Name_Of_Information}Name

Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Saturday, 4 August, 2018 20:01, Stephen Chrzanowski wrote: >I was right. I got the tables done before a response. But still >would like to know if there's a SQLite method of doing so. Of course there is. >My method was to use a templating application that I wrote at work. I >give it

Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread J Decker
I did this sort of thing in Xperdex ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/xperdex/ ) which is a C# thing, and enabled easy creation of DataTables similarly auto creating ID and Name by stripping pluralization from the name. Was working on a similar thing for JS; but keep getting distracted making it

Re: [sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread Stephen Chrzanowski
I was right. I got the tables done before a response. But still would like to know if there's a SQLite method of doing so. My method was to use a templating application that I wrote at work. I give it this variable declaration: Name=Resource I then give it this text: CREATE TABLE [%(Name)s](

[sqlite] "Cheating" at making common tables

2018-08-04 Thread Stephen Chrzanowski
I'm making a small database for a game, and a bunch of the tables follow the same kind of naming convention due to normalization, like {Name_Of_Information}s {Name_Of_Information}ID as Integer {Name_Of_Information}Name as Char So for example: Resources ResourceID as Integer ResourceName