RE: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread Brass Tilde
> Don't know about ALTER TABLE, but having native corelated subqueries > support would save on code and possibly speed up getting at > the end result greatly. With other products, I've actually found that using temporary tables can yield definite performance increases that far outweigh the develo

Re: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread VTenneti
Don't know about ALTER TABLE, but having native corelated subqueries support would save on code and possibly speed up getting at the end result greatly. Vijay - Forwarded by Vijay S Tenneti/Europe/Group 1 Software Europe Ltd on 21/04/2004 18:46 -

Re: [sqlite] Backing up data by date

2004-04-21 Thread Lloyd thomas
Forgive my ignorance, I have yet to use a transaction and therefore can you give me an example. Lloyd - Original Message - From: "Christian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lloyd thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [sqlit

RE: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread Fred Williams
My guess is, since it would appear that Richard is a member of a facility of a higher education institute, and somehow involved in computer education, I would speculate there are "students" involved in SQLite coding. Why else would a "Good to Excellent" C programmer have such an elaborate pre-rel

Re: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Apr 21, 2004, at 8:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puneet Kishor wrote: my guess is because it can be done other ways (see the docs on this specifically), and the idea is to keep SQLite as simple as possible. The more "conveniences" that are added to it, the more complicated it will become.

Re: [sqlite] Backing up data by date

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Smith
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Lloyd thomas wrote: >Which is the best way to backup rows which meet a certain date criteria? >ie WHERE data is <= '2003-11-20'. >Would I need to select and save the data to a temporary table and then DUMP the temp >table. > Just begin a transaction to get a snapshot of the

RE: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Smith
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> my guess is because it can be done other ways (see the docs on this >> specifically), and the idea is to keep SQLite as simple as possible. The >> more "conveniences" that are added to it, the more complicated it will >> bec

Re: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread Brass Tilde
> > I'm new to sqlite but as far as I can tell it does not support ALTER TABLE > > command. I could find that useful in future versions. > > That's right. > ALTER TABLE would be very helpful. > Are there any reasons it is not implemented yet ? What do you mean by "ALTER TABLE"? The ability to add

RE: [sqlite] suggestion

2004-04-21 Thread basil . thomas
Puneet Kishor wrote: > my guess is because it can be done other ways (see the docs on this > specifically), and the idea is to keep SQLite as simple as possible. The > more "conveniences" that are added to it, the more complicated it will > become. > Usually, once the database is set, there i