On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Dave Dyer wrote:
> using the standard sqlite encryption option:
>
> If I open a database I expect to be encrypted, and call
> sqlite_key to establish the expected key, how should I verify
> that the database is now open for business? Ie that the key
> was correct.
>
> Similarly, if I open a database might or might not be encrypted,
> how can I definitively determine that is the case, so I can ask
> the client for a password.
>
>
> It's not really satisfactory to just wait for some downstream
> query to fail, or to make a dummy query and assume that if it
> fails the reason is the lack of proper encryption keys.
The only thing you can do is to run an query and check to see if you
get back SQLITE_NOTADB. I suggest this query:
SELECT rowid FROM sqlite_master LIMIT 1;
D. Richard Hipp
d...@hwaci.com
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