I am trying to reproduce the SQL Server default NEWID() value for a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER column in SQLite. It produces a UUID as a default for the column.
How can I do that in SQLite?
I found this page (Is there UID datatype in SQLITE if Yes then how to generate value for that) where they use a select statement but it is no good for DEFAULT.
NOTE : I am using the SQLite version implemented for browsers as I am using it through ionic and the cordova-sqlite plugin. So this does not contain all the features provided by SQLite and more importantly this does not contain the RANDOM function.
Yes, you can use create function to add a UUID function. By default you'd have to write it in C, but many SQLite drivers have a way to add functions in their native language. Here's an example in Perl using DBD::SQLite.
use strict;
use warnings;
use v5.10;
use DBI;
use Data::UUID;
# Connect to the database.
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=test.db", "", "", { RaiseError => 1});
# Create uuid() which calls Perl to generate a uuid.
$dbh->sqlite_create_function("uuid", 0, sub { Data::UUID->new->create_str });
# Create a table using uuid() as the default.
$dbh->do(q[drop table if exists foo]);
$dbh->do(q[
create table foo (
id int primary key default (uuid()),
name text
)
]);
# Insert some rows using the default id.
$dbh->do(q[
insert into foo (name) values ("you"), ("me")
]);
# Print out the rows.
my $rows = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(q[select * from foo]);
for my $row (#$rows) {
say "$row->[0], $row->[1]";
}
And the result is.
E9768488-834F-11E6-AA60-F143DC5749B0, you
E976B69C-834F-11E6-AA60-F143DC5749B0, me
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I have a stored function that generates an identity name based on a set of parameters like this:
.create function
with (docstring = 'Returns the table name for the specified data log provider.')
GetTableName(param1: string, param2: string)
{
// Some string cleansing and concatenation
let tableName = strcat(system, source);
tableName
}
I want to use this function to create a table. Tried the following options with no success:
.create table GetTableName('value1', 'value2') (Timestamp: datetime)
.create table [GetTableName('value1', 'value2')] (Timestamp: datetime)
I'm guessing the command expects the table name to be a string literal. Is there any way to accomplish this?
Control commands that create tables cannot include query execution (and vise versa: queries cannot run control commands).
The restriction exists for security reasons.
You can achieve the scenario using client code and having two calls:
1) Derive table name
2) Generate table create command and send it to the server.
I'm having some strange feeling abour sqlite3 parameters that I would like to expose to you.
This is my query and the fail message :
#query
'SELECT id FROM ? WHERE key = ? AND (userid = '0' OR userid = ?) ORDER BY userid DESC LIMIT 1;'
#error message, fails when calling sqlite3_prepare()
error: 'near "?": syntax error'
In my code it looks like:
// Query is a helper class, at creation it does an sqlite3_preprare()
Query q("SELECT id FROM ? WHERE key = ? AND (userid = 0 OR userid = ?) ORDER BY userid DESC LIMIT 1;");
// bind arguments
q.bindString(1, _db_name.c_str() ); // class member, the table name
q.bindString(2, key.c_str()); // function argument (std::string)
q.bindInt (3, currentID); // function argument (int)
q.execute();
I have the feeling that I can't use sqlite parameters for the table name, but I can't find the confirmation in the Sqlite3 C API.
Do you know what's wrong with my query?
Do I have to pre-process my SQL statement to include the table name before preparing the query?
Ooookay, should have looked more thoroughly on SO.
Answers:
- SQLite Parameters - Not allowing tablename as parameter
- Variable table name in sqlite
They are meant for Python, but I guess the same applies for C++.
tl;dr:
You can't pass the table name as a parameter.
If anyone have a link in the SQLite documentation where I have the confirmation of this, I'll gladly accept the answer.
I know this is super old already but since your query is just a string you can always append the table name like this in C++:
std::string queryString = "SELECT id FROM " + std::string(_db_name);
or in objective-C:
[#"SELECT id FROM " stringByAppendingString:_db_name];
I've got a function that I'd like use to delete a row in my database. This is the only way I've used the DELETE statement to remove a row before but I want the 1 to be replaced by a variable called recID so that the value of recID is the row ID number which is deleted. So if recID = 6, I want the function to delete the row with ID = 6. I hope that makes sense.
'DELETE FROM MyRecords WHERE ID=1';
The notation I've been using is the following, if it helps or makes any difference.
db.transaction(function(transaction) {
transaction.executeSql( //DELETE STATEMENT HERE );
});
executeSql supports arguments (check definition).
Use it like:
db.transaction(function(transaction) {
transaction.executeSql("DELETE FROM MyRecords WHERE ID=?", [recId]);
});
If you're certain that your variable, recID, will only ever contain numbers, you can just use:
transaction.executeSql("DELETE FROM MyRecords WHERE ID=" + recID);
If recID comes from outside your application (user input) however, it either needs to be sanitized, or use a prepared statement and use the database API to set the parameter after the statement has been prepared. Otherwise you open yourself up to SQL injection attacks.
I don't know the details of your SQLite wrapper, or what version of SQLite it wraps, but creating a prepared statement using the SQLite3 C API would go something like this:
// sqlite3* db = ...
sqlite3_stmt* stmt;
sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, "DELETE FROM MyRecords WHERE ID=?", -1, &stmt, 0);
sqlite3_bind_int(stmt, 1, recID);
sqlite3_step();
// ...
sqlite3_finalize(stmt);
This simple example excludes all the error checking you'd want to do in a real application, but since you're using a wrapper that has different syntax anyway, you'd have to figure out how it wraps these functions anyway.
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();
}
}