Sqlite3. Substitution of names in query.

Matteo mahall at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Fri Oct 30 13:03:43 EDT 2009


On Oct 30, 7:27 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
[snip]
> Or even better, by
> not doing it at all - because usually, your datamodel is tied to your
> program, so the need for this kind of dynamicity shouldn't arise in the
> first place.
>
> Die

Perhaps that is true in the majority of cases, but there are
exceptions. I can think of a couple of instances where one might need
to do it:
1) A general database exploration or visualization application, or

2) Where one needs to perform a similar operation on several different
tables. In a current case of mine, I'm converting from several
externally provided tab-delimited tables to an in-memory sqlite
database. Most of my app is tied closely to the model, and needs no
such dynamicity. However, I want to automate the conversion, so I
don't have to write 20 or so similar functions.



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