I think you have to do some VACUUM'ing in order to shrink the database. --Keith
-----Original Message----- From: Paolo Vernazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sqlite] .db file size is not changing Unnikrishnan Nair wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a sqlite database. I had thousands of rows in >it. I did a test with the database and everything was >good. So before I ship it to production, I went to the database and I >did drop all the index and 'deleted' all the rows from the table. I >thought the size of the database will come down so that I can ship the >model database for production. But the size didn't change. >How can I reduce the size or is it possible at all? > >Thanks. >Unni > > I think that it is better let your program create the DB structure from a sql schema script. Usually it is smaller than the corresponding DB.. sqlite data.db .schema > schema.sql Paolo
