Database recommendations for Windows app
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Thu Jun 23 13:21:07 EDT 2005
Dan wrote:
> So in SQLLite, what happens of you try to store XYZ in an integer field?
Without your having enabled any of the "affinity" options mentioned by
Dave Cook, SQLite will happily store 'XYZ' in that column, and return it
to you when you query that row. The types are either ignored, or
advisory, or meaningful in various ways, depending on the settings you pick.
Note that this is considered something as a desirable feature in the
SQLite community, in a similar fashion (it appears to me) to how dynamic
typing is considered in the Python community, so don't consider it
outright to be a Bad Thing. I'd say more on the issue, if I knew
anything that I hadn't just read in the documentation. ;-)
-Peter
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