Shaun Seckman (Firaxis)
<[email protected]> wrote: 
>                I just wanted to find out whether or not this is the
> most ideal method for determining if a column exists in a table.  My
> current technique is to do execute "pragma table_info(tableName)" then
> step through the results and perform a string comparison against the
> "name" column until I hit a match or I've finished stepping through
> the record set.
> 
> Is there a better way?

I guess you could just prepare a statement "select mycolumn from mytable;" (you 
don't need to actually run it). If the column doesn't exist, prepare will fail.

Igor Tandetnik


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