Whaa? There is an ATTACH command?? I will look into this. Sounds like something I might be able to use at some point.
Bob S > On Oct 17, 2015, at 11:56 , Peter Haworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I assume this is a single user application? When you say you want to make > changes to the database, do you mean the user makes changes to the data in > the database using your application? If the disk version never changes > then the next time the user runs your app, whatever changes they made last > time around will be gone - is that OK? > > I'm not totally sure what you mean by "look into the database" but assume > you mean using anything other than your application. There's always going > to be ways to do that using any of the sqlite admin programs out there, > unless you use one of the encryption add-ons for sqlite. > > If you want to continue down this path, then conceptually, here's one way > to get the disk based db into an in memory version. > > 1. Open the in memory database which will be completely empty. > 2. Use the ATTACH command to open the disk db over the same connection. > Doing that involves assigning a name to identify the db which I'll assume > is "diskdb". You'll use that in the next step. > 3. For each table in the disk db, issue a CREATE TABLE AS command, which > will look something like this: "CREATE main.TABLE Movies AS SELECT * FROM > diskdb.Movies" > 4. Issue the command DETACH DATABASE diskdb > > After that all your data will be in your in memory database and you can > access it just as in any other db. > > Pete _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
