On 03-03-2012 16:43, Tim Streater wrote: > On 03 Mar 2012 at 15:15, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> > wrote: > >> MySQL has a really great manual with extensive explanations and dozens of >> examples for each command. SQLite is none of all this. It just has a limited >> number of pages listing a small number of commands and some special features. >> It also has a number of really weird diagrammes. >> >> How do I read diagrammes like http://sqlite.org/images/syntax/sql-stmt.gif ? > > Do you mean that you find all the diagrams incomprehensible, or just some? > Take this one: > > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#litvalue > > as an example. It is a pictorial way of describing how to form an > SQLite-legal numeric value. Following the pathways in the diagram, one can > see that 4, 12.8e-7, 0.6, are all legal numerics. Interestingly, +3 and -66 > appear not to be. >
Because they are signed-number: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#signed-number _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
