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Hey, I have a quick SQLite question. I am trying to execute two queries on a SQLite database. The first is executed sucessfully, but when the second one fails with an error message, "database is locked". I am currently using _SQLite_Close($Database) and _SQLite_Shutdown() between the two executions. I am not sure why the database is locked. The first execution is an INSERT statement and the second is a DELETE statement. Is there some kind of release functions that I am missing?

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I guess it's just happening what the error code says, the database is locked ;). The first INSERT statement does not seem to be finalized when you start the DELETE statement. Afaik SQLite supports a parallel reading (select) query, but two writing queries (insert, update, delete) are not allowed at the same time. Did you issue an BEGIN TRANSACTION without a COMMIT TRANSACTION? Maybe also try _SQLite_QueryFinalize()? Hard to say without a code sample :)...

Here's some reading on the locking mechanism: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

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It's a waste of resources and cycles to perform _close and (even more) _shutdown unnecessarily.

Typically, "Database is locked" means that an SQL statement (some SQLite VDBE) is still executing, when you attempt to execute another SQL statement using the same connection. This is a design error.

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I recommend not using split operations whenever possible. I mean you can generally have your job done by using only higher level function calls: _SQLite_Exec, _SQLite_GetTable[2d] or _SQLite_QuerySingleRow and such. Almost every piece of code I've been shown using "lower level" calls turns out to be less efficient and more error-prone.

Of course if your application calls for a more technical tuning, then you can achieve best performance by using _Preparev2 and friends yourself, but this requires careful structure in the code and a really good understanding of the working of the SQLite library itself.

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