----- Original Message -----
From: "P Kishor" <punk.k...@gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion of SQLite Database" <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:00:29 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Schema and database layout
>Google for help with designing relational databases. You will get 36
>million hits.
KR: You lied; I only got 4 million hits :-)
Thanks!
Kavita
>
> CREATE TABLE TypeNumbers (
> ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
> table_type INTEGER,
> MainID INTEGER,
> Type INTEGER,
> CurrentNumber INTEGER);
>
> And here is you "table_type" that will have numbers 1 to 10 and you
> will be able "to pass it to SQLite" (whatever that means).
>
>>> Would there be a way I can pass the schema as well as data into SQLite ?
>>
>> Elaborate please what do you want to do, where do you want to pass
>> "schema" (do you mean table name here?) and data?
>>
>> KR: The above should answer this question.
>
> It doesn't.
>
>> KR: Different threads are going to access different tables of the same table
>> type.
>
> Even more puzzles here. I thought your table type is just one table,
> it seems that you have several tables of the same type but why? And
> what's the difference between tables of different types? Does this
> mean that you have more than 10 tables? Do you have only 10 "table
> types"?
>
>> Maybe I need to think this through, even as I write this:-)
>
> That definitely will help. :-)
>
>
> Pavel
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Kavita Raghunathan
> <kavita.raghunat...@skyfiber.com> wrote:
>> Please see clarifications below:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pavel Ivanov" <paiva...@gmail.com>
>> To: "General Discussion of SQLite Database" <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:36:19 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>> Subject: Re: [sqlite] Schema and database layout
>>
>>> 1) dont see a way to reuse schemas. In other words, I have say 10 tables
>>> with the same schema. How would I prevent doing 10 CREATE table commands ?
>>
>> Create 1 table with 1 additional column "schema" which will contain
>> numbers from 1 to 10.
>>
>> KR: The 10 tables contain different data, but instead of doing this
>> statement (example below) over
>> and over, I want to just pass this table "type" because all my tables look
>> exactly
>> like table "TypeNumbers", but they have different data, depending on the
>> entity-id.
>>
>> strcpy(sqlStr,"CREATE TABLE TypeNumbers (");
>> strcat(sqlStr,"ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,");
>> strcat(sqlStr,"MainID INTEGER,");
>> strcat(sqlStr,"Type INTEGER,");
>> strcat(sqlStr,"CurrentNumber INTEGER);");
>>
>>> Would there be a way I can pass the schema as well as data into SQLite ?
>>
>> Elaborate please what do you want to do, where do you want to pass
>> "schema" (do you mean table name here?) and data?
>>
>> KR: The above should answer this question.
>>
>>> 2)Also, do you reccomend a different .db file for each schema so that
>>> multiple threads can easily operate at the same time ?
>>
>> It depends on how your threads will operate, how often they will issue
>> sql statements, what type of sql statements and all other details
>> about your application functionality.
>>
>> KR: Different threads are going to access different tables of the same table
>> type.
>> Maybe I need to think this through, even as I write this:-)
>>
>> Thanks, Pavel!
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Kavita Raghunathan
>> <kavita.raghunat...@skyfiber.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>> I have a couple of questions:
>>>
>>> I've been studying the C/C++ interface, and
>>> 1) dont see a way to reuse schemas. In other words, I have say 10 tables
>>> with the same schema. How would I prevent doing 10 CREATE table commands ?
>>> Would there be a way I can pass the schema as well as data into SQLite ?
>>>
>>> 2)Also, do you reccomend a different .db file for each schema so that
>>> multiple threads can easily operate at the same time ?
>>>
>>> I apologise in advance if I missed it in the documentation.
>>>
>>> Thanks again to this group for your awesome support. I've got a lot of
>>> ideas from you all.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kavita
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