On Dec 22, 2008, at 5:43 PM, flakpit wrote:

>
> Good evening.
>
> Due to many deletions, my database is non sequential anymore.
>
> Is there any way to fetch the very first record in the database and  
> find the
> id number? Or for that matter, a function to select the last record?
>
> I've tried the "SELECT TOP 1" function butt that apparently isn't  
> sqlite
> syntax.

The 'first record' is a malleable concept. You can find the record with
the lowest rowid value with:

   SELECT ... FROM <table> ORDER BY rowid LIMIT 1;



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