[PLUG] SQLite (was: mdbtools)

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Robert Citek wrote:

> sqlite's a great little RDBMS that is portable across Windows, Linux, OS
> X, and Solaris.  But I have run into some quirks.  For example:
>
> How do I drop a column?
> How do I rename a column?

Robert,

   It's not possible now with the implementation of the ALTER TABLE command.
I believe that's on the to-do list of the developers.

> How do I change the column definition, e.g. text to integer?

   Usually by changing the data type in there. Take a look at
<http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html>. Text values are quoted (single or
double) while integer values are not. If I had to make those changes I'd
dump the table and use a text editor to remove the quotation marks around
the values I wanted to change. Then, drop the original table and read the
revised one.

Rich

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