In my db-driven app I need to perform insert into queries in which the value for one or more field comes from a subquery.
The insert into statement may look like the following example:
INSERT INTO MyTable (field_1, field_2)
VALUES('value for field 1', (SELECT field_x FROM AnotherTable WHERE ...))
At present I am doing it manually building the query:
String MyQuery = "INSERT INTO mytable (field_1, field_2)
VALUES('value for field 1', (SELECT field_x FROM AnotherTable WHERE ...))"; // Of course my query is far more complex and is built in several steps but the concept is safe, I end up with a SQL String
SQLiteDatabase= db = getWritableDatabase();
db.execSQL(MyQuery); // And it works flawlessy as it was a Swiss Clock
What i would like to do instead is:
SQLiteDatabase db = getWritableDatabase();
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put("field_1", "value for field 1");
values.put("field_2", ThisIsAQuery("(SELECT field_x FROM AnotherTable WHERE ...)"));
db.insert("MyTable", null, values);
db.close();
Where the fake method ThisIsAQuery(...) is the missing part, something that should tell the query builder that "SELECT.." is not a value but a query that should be embedded in the insert statement.
Is there a way to achieve this?
The whole point of the ContentValues container is to be able to safely use strings without interpreting them as SQL commands.
It is not possible to use subqueries with insert(). The only way to get a value from another table is by executing a separate query; in this case, ThisIsAQuery() would be stringForQuery() or longForQuery().
Related
I'm using SQLite. I have two tables:
Log:
pid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT
action INTEGER NOT NULL
.... ect.
ErrorExtras:
pid INTEGER REFERENCES log(pid)
msg TEXT,
request TEXT
Now when an error occurs, I want to insert into both. Inserting into Log is easy, as it generates the PID, however, inserting into ErrorExtras is harder since I don't know the PID without doing a query. If I insert into Log, query for the PID and then insert into ErrorExtras, that seems quie messy. Is there some kind of shortcut for these kinds of inserts?
In my case, this is possible because the other info in log uniquely identifies the pid (so there's a combined key), but what if this weren't the case?
You needn't query for the insert_id, just use the last_insert_id in the select statement in ErrorExtras and Bob's your uncle.
If you have control of your SQL commands, you can use the last_insert_rowid SQL function like this:
INSERT INTO Log(action) VALUES(42);
INSERT INTO ErrorExtras(pid, msg) VALUES(last_insert_rowid(), 'x');
(But this works only for the very next INSERT command, because afterwards, last_insert_rowid() returns the rowid of the ErrorExtras record.)
If you are using the C API, you can use the sqlite3_last_insert_rowid function:
sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, "INSERT INTO Log(action) VALUES(42)", -1, &stmt, NULL);
sqlite3_step(stmt);
sqlite3_finalize(stmt);
sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, "INSERT INTO ErrorExtras(pid,msg) VALUES(?,?)", -1, &stmt, NULL);
sqlite3_bind_int64(stmt, 1, sqlite3_last_insert_rowid(db));
sqlite3_bind_text(stmt, 2, "x", -1, SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
sqlite3_step(stmt);
sqlite3_finalize(stmt);
The APIs of other languages typically also have some mechanism to get the last inserted rowid.
For example, in Android, the insert function returns it:
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.put("action", 42);
long log_rowid = db.insert("Log", null, cv);
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.put("pid", log_rowid);
cv.put("msg", "x");
db.insert("ErrorExtras", null, cv);
I am using asp.net2008 and MY SQL.
I want to auto-generate the value for the field username with the format as
"SISI001", "SISI002",
etc. in SQL whenever the new record is going to inserted.
How can i do it?
What can be the SQL query ?
Thanks.
Add a column with auto increment integer data type
Then get the maximum value of that column in the table using "Max()" function and assign the value to a integer variable (let the variable be 'x').
After that
string userid = "SISI";
x=x+1;
string count = new string('0',6-x.ToString().length);
userid=userid+count+x.ToString();
Use userid as your username
Hope It Helps. Good Luck.
PLAN A>
You need to keep a table (keys) that contains the last numeric ID generated for various entities. This case the entity is "user". So the table will contain two cols viz. entity varchar(100) and lastid int.
You can then have a function written that will receive the entity name and return the incremented ID. Use this ID concatenated with the string component "SISI" to be passed to MySQL for insertion to the database.
Following is the MySQL Table tblkeys:
CREATE TABLE `tblkeys` (
`entity` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`lastid` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`entity`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
The MySQL Function:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE FUNCTION `getkey`( ps_entity VARCHAR(100)) RETURNS INT(11)
BEGIN
DECLARE ll_lastid INT;
UPDATE tblkeys SET lastid = lastid+1 WHERE tblkeys.entity = ps_entity;
SELECT tblkeys.lastid INTO ll_lastid FROM tblkeys WHERE tblkeys.entity = ps_entity;
RETURN ll_lastid;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
The sample function call:
SELECT getkey('user')
Sample Insert command:
insert into users(username, password) values ('SISI'+getkey('user'), '$password')
Plan B>
This way the ID will be a bit larger but will not require any extra table. Use the following SQL to get a new unique ID:
SELECT ROUND(NOW() + 0)
You can pass it as part of the insert command and concatenate it with the string component of "SISI".
I am not an asp.net developer but i can help you
You can do something like this...
create a sequence in your mysql database as-
CREATE SEQUENCE "Database_name"."SEQUENCE1" MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 9999999999999999999999999999 INCREMENT BY 001 START WITH 21 CACHE 20 NOORDER NOCYCLE ;
and then while inserting use this query-----
insert into testing (userName) values(concat('SISI', sequence1.nextval))
may it help you in your doubt...
Try this:
CREATE TABLE Users (
IDs int NOT NULL IDENTITY (1, 1),
USERNAME AS 'SISI' + RIGHT('000000000' + CAST(IDs as varchar(10)), 4), --//getting uniqueness of IDs field
Address varchar(150)
)
(not tested)
I need to get column names and their tables in a SQLite database. What I need is a resultset with 2 columns: table_name | column_name.
In MySQL, I'm able to get this information with a SQL query on database INFORMATION_SCHEMA. However the SQLite offers table sqlite_master:
sqlite> create table students (id INTEGER, name TEXT);
sqlite> select * from sqlite_master;
table|students|students|2|CREATE TABLE students (id INTEGER, name TEXT)
which results a DDL construction query (CREATE TABLE) which is not helpful for me and I need to parse this to get relevant information.
I need to get list of tables and join them with columns or just get columns along with table name column. So PRAGMA table_info(TABLENAME) is not working for me since I don't have table name. I want to get all column metadata in the database.
Is there a better way to get that information as a result set by querying database?
You've basically named the solution in your question.
To get a list of tables (and views), query sqlite_master as in
SELECT name, sql FROM sqlite_master
WHERE type='table'
ORDER BY name;
(see the SQLite FAQ)
To get information about the columns in a specific table, use PRAGMA table_info(table-name); as explained in the SQLite PRAGMA documentation.
I don't know of any way to get tablename|columnname returned as the result of a single query. I don't believe SQLite supports this. Your best bet is probably to use the two methods together to return the information you're looking for - first get the list of tables using sqlite_master, then loop through them to get their columns using PRAGMA table_info().
Recent versions of SQLite allow you to select against PRAGMA results now, which makes this easy:
SELECT
m.name as table_name,
p.name as column_name
FROM
sqlite_master AS m
JOIN
pragma_table_info(m.name) AS p
ORDER BY
m.name,
p.cid
where p.cid holds the column order of the CREATE TABLE statement, zero-indexed.
David Garoutte answered this here, but this SQL should execute faster, and columns are ordered by the schema, not alphabetically.
Note that table_info also contains
type (the datatype, like integer or text),
notnull (1 if the column has a NOT NULL constraint)
dflt_value (NULL if no default value)
pk (1 if the column is the table's primary key, else 0)
RTFM: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_table_info
There are ".tables" and ".schema [table_name]" commands which give kind of a separated version to the result you get from "select * from sqlite_master;"
There is also "pragma table_info([table_name]);" command to get a better result for parsing instead of a construction query:
sqlite> .tables
students
sqlite> .schema students
create table students(id INTEGER, name TEXT);
sqlite> pragma table_info(students);
0|id|INTEGER|0||0
1|name|TEXT|0||0
Hope, it helps to some extent...
Another useful trick is to first get all the table names from sqlite_master.
Then for each one, fire off a query "select * from t where 1 = 0". If you analyze the structure of the resulting query - depends on what language/api you're calling it from - you get a rich structure describing the columns.
In python
c = ...db.cursor()
c.execute("select * from t where 1=0");
c.fetchall();
print c.description;
Juraj
PS. I'm in the habit of using 'where 1=0' because the record limiting syntax seems to vary from db to db. Furthermore, a good database will optimize out this always-false clause.
The same effect, in SQLite, is achieved with 'limit 0'.
FYI, if you're using .Net you can use the DbConnection.GetSchema method to retrieve information that usually is in INFORMATION_SCHEMA. If you have an abstraction layer you can have the same code for all types of databases (NOTE that MySQL seems to swich the 1st 2 arguments of the restrictions array).
Try this sqlite table schema parser, I implemented the sqlite table parser for parsing the table definitions in PHP.
It returns the full definitions (unique, primary key, type, precision, not null, references, table constraints... etc)
https://github.com/maghead/sqlite-parser
The syntax follows sqlite create table statement syntax: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html
This is an old question but because of the number of times it has been viewed we are adding to the question for the simple reason most of the answers tell you how to find the TABLE names in the SQLite Database
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE TABLE NAME IS NOT IN THE DATABASE ?
This is happening to our app because we are creating TABLES programmatically
So the code below will deal with the issue when the TABLE is NOT in or created by the Database Enjoy
public void toPageTwo(View view){
if(etQuizTable.getText().toString().equals("")){
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Enter Table Name\n\n"
+" OR"+"\n\nMake Table First", Toast.LENGTH_LONG
).show();
etQuizTable.requestFocus();
return;
}
NEW_TABLE = etQuizTable.getText().toString().trim();
db = dbHelper.getWritableDatabase();
ArrayList<String> arrTblNames = new ArrayList<>();
Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE
type='table'", null);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
while ( !c.isAfterLast() ) {
arrTblNames.add( c.getString( c.getColumnIndex("name")) );
c.moveToNext();
}
}
c.close();
db.close();
boolean matchFound = false;
for(int i=0;i<arrTblNames.size();i++) {
if(arrTblNames.get(i).equals(NEW_TABLE)) {
Intent intent = new Intent(ManageTables.this, TableCreate.class
);
startActivity( intent );
matchFound = true;
}
}
if (!matchFound) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "No Such Table\n\n"
+" OR"+"\n\nMake Table First", Toast.LENGTH_LONG
).show();
etQuizTable.requestFocus();
}
}
Hi
I have a sqlite db which I am manipulating using qts built in sqlite database driver.
I have a small test app that allows me to run an sql query from a line edit and it will be executed and the results are then updated in a view of the relevant model.
I have created a table which uses autoincremented primary key values, but if I execute an insert statement without providing the key, I get two rows inserted, each with an autoincremented value.
If I provide the key value, only one row is created. Any ideas why this is?
Table is simple enough, e.g
CREATE TABLE GroupNames ( ID integer PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL UNIQUE, Name varchar(50))
and when I run the query
insert into groupnames (name) values ("testName");
I get two new rows with autoincremented ids. However, if I run
insert into groupnames (id, name) values (100, "testName");
I get one row as expected, with the correct id 100.
Also of note is that if I try
insert into table groupnames (id, name) values (100, "testName");
insert into table groupnames (name) values ("testName");
the query does not run.
The qt code to run the query could not be simpler:
QSqlQuery *DbCore::run_query(const QString &query_string)
{
QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::database(defConnectionName);
if(!db.isOpen())
return NULL;
QSqlQuery *q = new QSqlQuery(query_string, db);
q->exec();
return q;
}
I have added some logging code to check that the query is executed once:
QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::database(defConnectionName);
if(!db.isOpen())
return NULL;
qDebug() << "Running query:" << query_string;
QSqlQuery *q = new QSqlQuery(query_string, db);
if(!q->exec())
qDebug() << "Error running query:" << q->lastError();
return q;
The log confirms that I'm only executing once:
Running query: "insert into groupnames (name) values ("hello")"
If i then check the database using sqlite3 shell (to remove any doubt about qt views etc):
sqlite> select * from groupnames;
1|hello
2|hello
question was answered above in a comment:
As i see in the documentation, when you create a QSqlQuery the way you do, the query, if not empty, is executed. To create the QSqlQuery and execute the query, use this: QSqlQuery *q = new QSqlQuery(db); q->exec(query_string) To see the last executed query, use QSqlQuery::lastQuery() And for the last query that was successfully executed QSqlQuery::executedQuery() Hope this helps. – Hector Mar 16 at
To truncate a table in SQLite I need to use this syntax:
DELETE FROM someTable
But how do I truncate the table only if it exists?
Unfortunately this throws an error:
DELETE FROM someTable IF EXISTS
This doesn't work either:
DELETE IF EXISTS FROM someTable
Thanks.
It is the two step process:
Delete all data from that table using:
Delete from TableName
Then:
DELETE FROM SQLITE_SEQUENCE WHERE name='TableName';
IMHO, it is more efficient to drop the table and re-create it. And yes, you can use "IF EXISTS" in this case.
Just do delete. This is from the SQLite documentation:
The Truncate Optimization
"When the WHERE is omitted from a DELETE statement and the table being deleted has no triggers, SQLite uses an optimization to erase the entire table content without having to visit each row of the table individually. This "truncate" optimization makes the delete run much faster. Prior to SQLite version 3.6.5, the truncate optimization also meant that the sqlite3_changes() and sqlite3_total_changes() interfaces and the count_changes pragma will not actually return the number of deleted rows. That problem has been fixed as of version 3.6.5."
I got it to work with:
SQLiteDatabase db= this.getWritableDatabase();
db.delete(TABLE_NAME, null, null);
SELECT name FROM sqlite_master where name = '<TABLE_NAME_HERE>'
If the table name does not exist then there would not be any records returned!
You can as well use
SELECT count(name) FROM sqlite_master where name = '<TABLE_NAME_HERE>'
if the count is 1, means table exists, otherwise, it would return 0
After deleting I'm also using VACUUM command. So for full TRUNCATE equivalent I use this code:
DELETE FROM <table>;
UPDATE SQLITE_SEQUENCE SET seq = 0 WHERE name = '<table>';
VACUUM;
Deleting isn't working for me for reset Auto Increment
DELETE FROM "sqlite_sequence" WHERE "name"='<table>';
To read more about VACUUM you can go here: https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2015/01/06/sqlite-vacuum-and-auto_vacuum/
Unfortunately, we do not have a "TRUNCATE TABLE" command in SQLite, but you can use SQLite's DELETE command to delete the complete data from an existing table, though it is recommended to use the DROP TABLE command to drop the complete table and re-create it once again.
"sqllite" dosn't have "TRUNCATE " order like than mysql, then we have to get other way...
this function (reset_table) frist delete all data in table and then reset AUTOINCREMENT key in table....
now you can use this function every where you want...
example :
private SQLiteDatabase mydb;
private final String dbPath = "data/data/your_project_name/databases/";
private final String dbName = "your_db_name";
public void reset_table(String table_name){
open_db();
mydb.execSQL("Delete from "+table_name);
mydb.execSQL("DELETE FROM SQLITE_SEQUENCE WHERE name='"+table_name+"';");
close_db();
}
public void open_db(){
mydb = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(dbPath + dbName + ".db", null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE);
}
public void close_db(){
mydb.close();
}
**It is Simple, just follow 2 steps.
Step #1. Fire query "Delete from tableName", It will delete all records from table.
Step #2. There is table named "sqlite_sequence" in Sqlite Database, just browse it and you can set sequence table wise to "0" so it will start from auto id "1".**
See the screenshot attached.
there is no truncate command in sqlite.
but can be achieved by:
delete all records;
Delete from 'Table1';
then
set auto-increment to 0;
UPDATE SQLITE_SEQUENCE SET seq = 0 WHERE name = 'Table1';