On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:27 AM, ps16thypresence wrote: >> >> > > I'm completely new to SQL, and recently started using SQLite in >> > > one of my Python programs. > > Unrelated to Python but as you're new to SQL I figured I'd ask: Do you have > an index on the name field? If you don't, you'll incur a full table scan > which will be more expensive than if you have an index in the field. > > For more info about indexes see http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html.
It's the primary key, which I would normally assume is indexed implicitly. This is another reason for not breaking the CREATE TABLE statement at the point where the OP did; it's not obvious that that field is indexed, this way. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
