The problem is that you're giving your column a type when you don't want it to have. If the second last line was "message NOT NULL" you'd get exactly what you're asking for.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the following table: > CREATE TABLE messages( > messageID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, > date TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE, > time TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIME, > type TEXT NOT NULL, > message TEXT NOT NULL > ); > > But for some data the field message is filled with an integer. An integer > takes less room as its text representation and it sorts differently also. > Is there a way to store an INTEGER in a TEXT field? Not very important, > more nice to have. > > I just created the following view: > CREATE VIEW downloadCount AS > SELECT date AS Date > , time AS Time > , CAST(message AS INTEGER) AS DownloadCount > FROM messages > WHERE type = 'download-count' > ; > > -- > Cecil Westerhof > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
