Re: [sqlite] Re[sqlite] trieving only one record in the database

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Hooker
This is the syntax of a select statement as shown in the manual: SELECT [ALL | DISTINCT] result [FROM table-list] [WHERE expr] [GROUP BY expr-list] [HAVING expr] [compound-op select]* [ORDER BY sort-expr-list] [LIMIT integer [( OFFSET | , ) integer]] The bit you want is LIMIT[integer]. Say

Re: [sqlite] Re[sqlite] trieving only one record in the database

2008-01-25 Thread epankoke
You could do SELECT whatever FROM table WHERE criteria LIMIT 1 or SELECT COUNT(*) AS RowCount FROM table WHERE criteria Then just check that the value of RowCount > 0. The nice thing about the latter is that now you are set up if you ever want to know how many rows meet the criteria that

[sqlite] Re[sqlite] trieving only one record in the database

2008-01-25 Thread arbalest06
Good day! I want to retrieve only one record in the database with a condition that may cause a retrieval of many records. The purpose of this is for me to check only if there is at least 1 record in the database. So if given my condition, the query would now search for one record in the database