The Definitive Guide to SQLite

By: Mike Owens

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When I first began coding SQLite in the spring of 2000, I never imagined that it would be so enthusiastically received by the programming community. Today, there are millions and millions of copies of SQLite running unnoticed inside computers and gadgets made by hundreds of companies from around the world. You have probably used SQLite before without realizing it. SQLite might be inside your new cell phone or MP3 player or in the set-top box from your cable company. At least one copy of SQLite is probably found on your home computer; it comes built in on Apple's Mac OS X and on most versions of Linux, and it gets added to Windows when you install any of dozens of third-party software titles. SQLite backs many websites thanks in part to its inclusion in the PHP5 programming language. And SQLite is also known to be used in aircraft avionics, modeling and simulation programs, industrial controllers, smart cards, decision-support packages, and medical information systems. Since there are no reporting requirements on the use of SQLite, there are without doubt countless other deployments that are unknown to me. Much credit for the popularity of SQLite belongs to Michael Owens. Mike's articles on SQLite in The Linux Journal (June 2003) and in The C/C++ Users Journal (March 2004) int- duced SQLite to countless programmers. The traffic at the SQLite website jumped noticeably after each of these articles appeared.

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Foreword	p. xv
About the Author	p. xvii
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Introducing SQLite	p. 1
An Embedded Database	p. 1
A Developer's Database	p. 2
An Administrator's Database	p. 3
SQLite History	p. 3
Who Uses SQLite	p. 4
Architecture	p. 5
The Interface	p. 6
The Compiler	p. 6
The Virtual Machine	p. 6
The Back-end	p. 7
Utilities and Test Code	p. 8
SQLite's Features and Philosophy	p. 8
Zero Configuration	p. 8
Portability	p. 8
Compactness	p. 8
Simplicity	p. 9
Flexibility	p. 9
Liberal Licensing	p. 9
Reliability	p. 10
Convenience	p. 10
Performance and Limitations	p. 11
Who Should Read This Book	p. 14
How This Book Is Organized	p. 14
Additional Information	p. 16
Summary	p. 16
Getting Started	p. 17
Where to Get SQLite	p. 17
SQLite on Windows	p. 18
Getting the Command-Line Program	p. 18
Getting the SQLite DLL	p. 20
Compiling the SQLite Source Code on Windows	p. 21
Building the SQLite DLL with Microsoft Visual C++	p. 25
Building a Dynamically Linked SQLite Client with Visual C++	p. 28
Building SQLite with MinGW	p. 29
SQLite on POSIX Systems	p. 31
Binaries and Packages	p. 31
Compiling SQLite from Source	p. 33
Working with SQLite Databases	p. 34
The CLP in Shell Mode	p. 34
The CLP in Command-Line Mode	p. 41
Database Administration	p. 42
Creating, Backing Up, and Dropping Databases	p. 42
Getting Database File Information	p. 43
Other SQLite Tools	p. 45
Summary	p. 45
The Relational Model	p. 47
Background	p. 47
The Three Components	p. 48
SQL and the Relational Model	p. 48
The Structural Component	p. 49
The Information Principle	p. 49
The Sanctity of the Logical Level	p. 50
The Anatomy of the Logical Level	p. 51
Tuples	p. 52
Relations	p. 52
Tables: Relation Variables	p. 56
Views: Virtual Tables	p. 58
The System Catalog	p. 59
The Integrity Component	p. 60
Primary Keys	p. 60
Foreign Keys	p. 61
Constraints	p. 62
Null Values	p. 63
Normalization	p. 63
Normal Forms	p. 64
First Normal Form	p. 64
Functional Dependencies	p. 64
Second Normal Form	p. 65
Third Normal Form	p. 67
The Manipulative Component	p. 68
Relational Algebra and Calculus	p. 68
Relational Query Language	p. 69
The Advent of SQL	p. 70
The Meaning of Relational	p. 71
Summary	p. 71
References	p. 72
SQL	p. 73
The Relational Model	p. 73
Query Languages	p. 74
The Growth of SQL	p. 74
The Example Database	p. 75
Installation	p. 76
Running the Examples	p. 76
Syntax	p. 77
Commands	p. 79
Literals	p. 79
Keywords and Identifiers	p. 80
Comments	p. 80
Creating a Database	p. 80
Creating Tables	p. 80
Altering Tables	p. 82
Querying the Database	p. 82
Relational Operations	p. 82
The Operational Pipeline	p. 84
Filtering	p. 87
Limiting and Ordering	p. 93
Functions and Aggregates	p. 94
Grouping	p. 97
Removing Duplicates	p. 101
Joining Tables	p. 101
Names and Aliases	p. 109
Subqueries	p. 111
Compound Queries	p. 114
Conditional Results	p. 117
The Thing Called Null	p. 119
Set Operations	p. 122
Modifying Data	p. 123
Inserting Records	p. 123
Updating Records	p. 127
Deleting Records	p. 128
Data Integrity	p. 128
Entity Integrity	p. 128
Domain Integrity	p. 133
Storage Classes	p. 136
Manifest Typing	p. 139
Type Affinity	p. 141
Transactions	p. 147
Transaction Scopes	p. 147
Conflict Resolution	p. 148
Database Locks	p. 151
Deadlocks	p. 151
Transaction Types	p. 152
Database Administration	p. 153
Views	p. 153
Indexes	p. 155
Triggers	p. 158
Attaching Databases	p. 163
Cleaning Databases	p. 164
Database Configuration	p. 165
The System Catalog	p. 168
Viewing Query Plans	p. 168
Summary	p. 169
Design and Concepts	p. 171
The API	p. 171
What's New in SQLite Version 3	p. 172
The Principal Data Structures	p. 172
The Core API	p. 174
Operational Control	p. 182
The Extension API	p. 183
Transactions	p. 186
Transaction Lifecycles	p. 186
Lock States	p. 187
Read Transactions	p. 188
Write Transactions	p. 189
Tuning the Page Cache	p. 192
Waiting for Locks	p. 194
Code	p. 197
Using Multiple Connections	p. 197
Table Locks	p. 198
Fun with Temporary Tables	p. 199
The Importance of Finalizing	p. 201
Shared Cache Mode	p. 202
Summary	p. 203
The Core C API	p. 205
Wrapped Queries	p. 205
Connecting and Disconnecting	p. 206
The exec Query	p. 207
String Handling	p. 211
The Get Table Query	p. 213
Prepared Queries	p. 214
Compilation	p. 216
Execution	p. 216
Finalization and Reset	p. 217
Fetching Records	p. 219
Parameterized Queries	p. 224
Errors and the Unexpected	p. 229
Handling Errors	p. 229
Handling Busy Conditions	p. 232
Handling Schema Changes	p. 233
Operational Control	p. 235
Commit Hooks	p. 235
Rollback Hooks	p. 236
Update Hooks	p. 236
Authorizer Functions	p. 237
Threads	p. 246
Shared Cache Mode	p. 247
Threads and Memory Management	p. 252
Summary	p. 253
The Extension C API	p. 255
The API	p. 256
Registering Functions	p. 256
The Step Function	p. 258
Return Values	p. 258
Functions	p. 259
Return Values	p. 262
A Complete Example	p. 264
A Practical Application	p. 267
Aggregates	p. 278
A Practical Example	p. 280
Collating Sequences	p. 283
Collation Defined	p. 284
A Simple Example	p. 286
Collation on Demand	p. 291
A Practical Application	p. 292
Summary	p. 299
Language Extensions	p. 301
Selecting an Extension	p. 302
Perl	p. 303
Installation	p. 303
Connecting	p. 304
Query Processing	p. 304
Parameter Binding	p. 306
User-Defined Functions and Aggregates	p. 307
Python	p. 310
PySQLite	p. 310
APSW	p. 316
Ruby	p. 319
Installation	p. 319
Connecting	p. 319
Query Processing	p. 320
User-Defined Functions and Aggregates	p. 322
Java	p. 324
Installation	p. 325
Connecting	p. 325
Query Processing	p. 326
User-Defined Functions and Aggregates	p. 328
JDBC	p. 329
Tcl	p. 331
Installation	p. 331
Connecting	p. 331
Query Processing	p. 332
User-Defined Functions	p. 334
PHP	p. 335
Installation	p. 336
Connections	p. 336
Queries	p. 336
User-Defined Functions and Aggregates	p. 339
Summary	p. 340
SQLite Internals	p. 341
The Virtual Database Engine	p. 341
The Stack	p. 343
Program Body	p. 343
Program Startup and Shutdown	p. 345
Instruction Types	p. 347
The B-Tree and Pager Modules	p. 349
Database File Format	p. 349
The B-Tree API	p. 353
The Compiler	p. 355
The Tokenizer	p. 355
The Parser	p. 357
The Code Generator	p. 358
The Optimizer	p. 360
Summary	p. 362
SQL Reference	p. 365
C API Reference	p. 395
Codd's 12 Rules	p. 423
Index	p. 425
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