I have been using SQLite for over a year now and it is an excellent SQL
Library. Some more features from SQL92 would surely be welcome while keeping
SQLite fast and small. Suggestions for ver 3.0 include:
- Full referential integrity by implement check and foreign key
constraints
- multi-row value inserts just like MySQL (..copied the REPLACE from
MySQL..so copy INSERT as well)
- control-of-flow language such as IF-THEN-ELSE, BEGIN..END, WHILE,
PRINT, RAISERROR, etc
- use of local variables e.g. DECLARE @varName dataType
- system global variables e.g. @@error, @@identity
- stored procedures: if triggers can be implemented then so can
stored procs
- add alter TABLE, VIEW and TRIGGER
- CREATE, ALTER and DROP DATABASE: if we can attach and detach, we
should also be able to create
and delete them through DDL statements
I will be lucky if any of these would/could or should be implemented but if
most were then even for embedded applications,
being able to do almost all data manipulation using SQL statements only,
would be a great improvement...
B.Thomas
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