I don't know if FTS or a normal table will matter here but just normalize the whole thing.
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE virfts4 using fts4(id,level,value); Your level can be CO, ST, CI, VI. Or 1,2,3,4. 1,2,3,4 would be a touch faster. INSERT INTO virfts4 VALUES(1,'CO','country1'); INSERT INTO virfts4 VALUES(1,'ST','state1'); INSERT INTO virfts4 VALUES(1,'CI','city1'); INSERT INTO virfts4 VALUES(1,'VI','village1'); SELECT DISTINCT value FROM virfts4 WHERE level MATCH 'CO'; You can store as many levels as you want. Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Advanced Analytics Directorate Advanced GEOINT Solutions Operating Unit Northrop Grumman Information Systems ________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] on behalf of Durga D [durga.d...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:27 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] search Thank you. I agree. It's correct. I already have data base with /country/state/city/village format. Is it possible to do that while virtual table creation time? if yes, how? in case, if I have 250 levels like this ex: file system. how to do this. any idea? Thanks in advance. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Kit <kit.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/12/27 Durga D <durga.d...@gmail.com>: > > select * from virfts4 where residence match '/*'; -- dint work > > how to get counties names from this db by using query? > > Normalize database to 1NF, e.g. > CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE virfts4 using fts4(country, state, city, village, > arrivtime, duration, imagelocation); > INSERT INTO virfts4 VALUES ('country1','state1','city1','village1', > 0730, 1500,'C'); > > then use select: > SELECT DISTINCT country FROM virfts4; > -- > Kit > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users