On May 18, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Pavel Ivanov wrote:
> Actually I wanted to know if it can be useful somewhere. :-)
I already shown you one useful thing to do with a SELECT that omits
the FROM clause: Determine the version of SQLite you are running
using "SELECT sqlite_version()".
In applications I write, I typically have an SQLite database
connection open and the infrastructure in place to get query results
easily, and so I find queries such as the following to be useful and
convenient:
SELECT datetime('now'); -- Get the current date and time in
IS0-8601
SELECT lower(hex(randomblob(32))); -- Get a universally unique
identifier
The original reason that SELECT without FROM was added is so that one
could invoke application-defined functions, or the RAISE() function,
from within triggers:
CREATE TRIGGER ex1 AFTER UPDATE ON table1 BEGIN
SELECT do_something_using_c_code();
END;
D. Richard Hipp
d...@hwaci.com
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