Re: [sqlite] Database Diagram

2011-12-06 Thread python
> I like navicat lite generally, though the lite version does not have > diagramming. Their commercial edition does have this and they have 30 day > free trials, so I'd probably check that out first and see if it does what you > need. Mac users seem to universally adore sql editor (Puneet just

Re: [sqlite] Database Diagram

2011-12-06 Thread python
Hi Sean, > That said, having looked at tens of free options and seen the average > quality, I would strongly recommend paying a few hundred bucks for a > professional product if I needed this functionality. Do you have any recommendations on commercial database diagram products? Thanks,

Re: [sqlite] Select

2010-12-10 Thread python
>> A user who has rated movie 1 twice >> and has not rated movie 10, >> would show up in your result.. > I vote that all future discussion on this list be in the form of Haiku. Brilliant :) +1 Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list

Re: [sqlite] Reading a text file and insert to sqlite tables

2010-12-09 Thread python
Simon, > convert your text file to .csv format, and use the SQLite command-line tool > to make a table out of it. Will this technique work with multi-line fields (fields with newlines) or blobs? Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list

Re: [sqlite] EXTERNAL:Re: How to select an entry that appears <=ntimes and only show n times if it appears more than n times?

2010-07-02 Thread python
Another +1 on the "awestruck"! Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Database logic in TRIGGER and CONFLICT, or in software ?

2009-06-15 Thread python
Jay, Every system that uses a database must deal with this problem, and there are no real easy answers. But here are a few deeper points to consider ... Beautifully written!! Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org

Re: [sqlite] Slow Transaction Speed?

2009-05-27 Thread python
Dr. Hipp, > Your OS and filesystem configuration have a big impact too. I've notice, for > example, that transactions are really slow on RieserFS on Linux compared to > Ext3. In your experience, which Linux file system(s) provide the high performance platform for SQLite? Which Linux file

[sqlite] Working with very large data sets from a single process/batch perspective

2009-02-27 Thread python
This is a continuation of the "SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)" thread with a request to learn how others are using SQLite with very large data sets. The context of this post is processing large data sets from a single process perspective, eg. this question is being asked from a batch data

Re: [sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-27 Thread python
Alexey, Thank you for your reply and for sharing your success with SQLite. I'm excited by your results (60x faster). On an informal basis, we've been going back and re-benchmarking some of our old, 'traditional' (Oracle/Informatica) ETL/DW projects and we now believe the majority of these systems

Re: [sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-27 Thread python
Server and ETL tools like Informatica, Ab Initio, BO Data Integrator, etc. My goal is to be able to offer our customers cost effective, high performance alternatives to traditional commercial ETL solutions. We recently re-implemented a mid-sized Oracle/Informatica based ETL system in Python using

Re: [sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-23 Thread python
P Kishor, >> Most computers these days are multi-core. .. > One of things easy to overlook is that SQLite is not a PC-exclusive software. About 10 million copies of SQLite run on iPhone. Who knows how many run on other handhelds, embedded platforms, Vxworks, the like. SQLite used to fit on a

Re: [sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-23 Thread python
Hi Billy, >> Are there any plans to enhance SQLite to support some of Oracle's >> parallel processing or partitioning capabilities? > I realized that you're asking Richard, and not the peanut gallery, but > I figured I might as well ask out of curiosity: why do you want to > see these features

Re: [sqlite] question on creating/populating table with varchar/clob data types

2009-02-23 Thread python
Dr. Hipp, > The story goes like this: ... Great story! Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-23 Thread python
Dr. Hipp and others, Thank you for your replies to my question. Regards, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

[sqlite] SQLite vs. Oracle (parallelized)

2009-02-23 Thread python
Dr. Hipp, When you say "SQLite is way faster than Oracle in a single-user applications" do you mean that SQLite can be faster than Oracle even when Oracle's parallel processing features are being used? For example Oracle's support for parallelization can speed up table loading from an external

Re: [sqlite] Any advantage to pre-sorting data before loading and indexing it?

2009-02-17 Thread python
Stefan and Michael, Thank you very much for your feedback. Regards, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

[sqlite] Any advantage to pre-sorting data before loading and indexing it?

2009-02-17 Thread python
Is there any advantage to having data pre-sorted (in index order) before loading it into SQLite and indexing it? Or does indexing work best if the index values are randomly ordered at data load time? Thanks, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list

Re: [sqlite] Open SQLite database without storing database on disk?

2008-11-08 Thread python
Igor, > You could, I suppose, implement a VFS on top of a block of memory. See > http://sqlite.org/c3ref/vfs_find.html Great suggestion. An idea for a future release of SQLite might be a memory based VFS that would allow "small" SQLite databases to be manipulated entirely in memory. SQLite

[sqlite] Open SQLite database without storing database on disk?

2008-11-08 Thread python
Is it possible to open a SQLite database without physically storing the SQLite database file on disk? Background: Customer has application that generates SQLite databases with proprietary pricing information. They would like their users to download these databases from their SSL secured website

[sqlite] Can SQLite take advantage of multiple CPU's and/or multiple cores?

2008-09-18 Thread python
Can SQLite take advantage of multiple CPU's and/or multiple cores? Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

[sqlite] Difference in performance between 32 and 64 bit versions of SQLite?

2008-09-01 Thread python
will be processing very large text based log files (> 16G each). We will be using Python 2.52 as our SQLite scripting tool. Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-05-04 Thread python
Zbigniew, > You can try "SQLite Studio" http://sqlitestudio.one.pl/ Thank you, Malcolm PS: For those following this thread, SQLite Studio is now (as of May 3 2008) a free product with GPL license. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org

Re: [sqlite] Recommended SQLite utilities

2008-05-02 Thread python
Tom, > I started a tabulated comparison of various SQLite GUI applications for Mac: > http://www.tandb.com.au/sqlite/compare/ Wow! Your list is quite comprehensive. Thanks! Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org

Re: [sqlite] Recommended pragmas for new SQLite users to focus on

2008-05-01 Thread python
Hi Donald, >> I think you're right for general purpose applications. But if you have ETL >> or data conversion/analysis applications that can be re-run after a failure >> (using source content), this type of pragma sounds like a reasonable choice. > I very much agree with your statement -- I

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-05-01 Thread python
> I use Firefox and I installed the SQLite add-in. I really like it! Thanks Jeff! ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-05-01 Thread python
Thanks Kees! > I played with a few other frontends, but always find myself back in > Sqlite3Explorer. > ... find a way to start FireFox with this add-on opening the database I'm > interested in from a shell script, or associate my preferred sqlite3 filename > extension (.db3) with it. I've

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-05-01 Thread python
Thanks Robert! > tkSQLite at http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/wiki/TkSQLite.html Regards, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Recommended pragmas for new SQLite users to focus on

2008-04-30 Thread python
Donald, > http://web.utk.edu/~jplyon/sqlite/SQLite_optimization_FAQ.html#pragmas > > Am I right in that the article above promotes the use of "PRAGMA > synchronous=OFF" without even a TRACE of warning that this may result in irretrievable database corruption? Isn't that a bit reckless? I think

Re: [sqlite] Recommended pragmas for new SQLite users to focus on

2008-04-30 Thread python
> But my advice stands. Set things up and see how things work. If you want/need > better performance, start tweaking. But there is a good chance that the > performance "out of the box" will be fine. Thanks Gerry! Regards, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Recommended pragmas for new SQLite users to focus on

2008-04-30 Thread python
Hi Gerry, > Much care and thought have gone into setting up the default behaviors in > SQLite. > My advice would be not to use any pragmas initially. That may be the safe solution, but my impression was that SQLite defaults to conservative settings that may not apply to many of today's high

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-04-30 Thread python
Hi Dennis, > On Windows I like SQLiteSpy from > http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/sqlitespy/index > For cross platform use (Mac, Windows, and Linux) you may be interested > in the SQLite Manager add-on for Firefox at > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817. Thanks

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-04-30 Thread python
P Kishor, > I have started liking Malcolm Hardie Company's SQL Editor (an inexpensive, > ERD diagramming tool that can read and write SQLite databases, among other > db)... not really a db front-end, but a utility nonetheless. Thank you, Malcolm ___

Re: [sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-04-29 Thread python
P Kishor, > http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ManagementTools Oops, that's embarrassing! Do you have a favorite on this page that you would recommend? Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org

[sqlite] Recommended (Windows/Linux) SQLite utilities

2008-04-29 Thread python
Looking for recommendations for 3rd party SQLite utilities for browsing, maintaining, importing/exporting and repairing SQLite database files. My primary development environments are Windows and Linux although I'm open to Mac only products as well. My 'google' research on this topic follows my

[sqlite] Recommended pragmas for new SQLite users to focus on

2008-04-29 Thread python
TEMP_STORE = MEMORY and possibly others???) BTW: I'm interfacing to SQLite via Python 2.5 on Windows and Linux systems with lots of RAM. Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [sqlite] Status of SQLite's full-text search (and Python 2.5 support?)

2008-04-20 Thread python
P Kishor, > I have no idea how I conveyed that impression. I think FTS3 is really > wonderful, and have implemented it in my own personal website. I firmly > believe in the "Why file when you can full-text search" doctrine. Excellent! Thanks for the follow-up. You answered my questions. And

Re: [sqlite] Status of SQLite's full-text search (and Python 2.5 support?)

2008-04-20 Thread python
>> Is SQLite's full text ready for production use yet? > as ready as it will be. FTS 1/2 are deprecated. You don't sound too thrilled :) Are there any limitations that one should be aware of? Thank you, Malcolm ___ sqlite-users mailing list

[sqlite] Status of SQLite's full-text search (and Python 2.5 support?)

2008-04-20 Thread python
-on modules for full text search: FTS1 and FTS2. Is SQLite's full text ready for production use yet? I'm also wondering where I can find out if the version of SQLite that ships as part of Python 2.5 includes automatic support for full text search. Thank you, Malcolm

[sqlite] Inserting python data structues into database

2006-06-01 Thread Python newsgroup
Hi, What is the most efficient way to enter python binary data such as lists or dictionaries in to sqlite? Has anyone had any experiences with this? We will be inserting a list of lists of integers into our database. For example: [[1,2,3],[1,4,6],[1,1,1],[2,4,6],[12,32,4],...,[1,3,4]] Any