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hello world!

i am storing user preferences in a sqlite table

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user A

target 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... (saved preference)

each target has multiple entries (which are the results im looking for each target)

 

other users (other than user A) sometimes query the same targets

i would like to find an efficient way of storing each target results so i dont have to query the same targets in subsequent queries.

there several different targets and results change daily so i dont really want to store them back into sql because there may be danger of carrying forward stale data - was hoping to store results for each target in memory somehow then easily using them again for subsequent queries

hope this makes sense

thanks in advance!

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49 minutes ago, gcue said:

hope this makes sense

I'm afraid it doesn't (at least to me). What is the "danger of carrying forward stale data" and what precludes you from keeping queried data in memory during runtime?

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A temp table is automagically destroyed when the connection closes. But why not just store the resultset in an array?

OTOH how large is your table and is repeatedly querying the changing data significantly too slow for your application? Aren't you in the premature optimization route?

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table is not large but the results of each can be up to 1000 results sometimes.  array probably would work best now that i think about it.. because it would just be 1 array.. thanks again for making my gears turn =)

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If it means anything, I have tested SQLite db with a single table, about 8 columns and 34K rows of data. Returned in 2secs :)

If you go the SQL way, you can simply datestamp the inserts and delete them periodically - keeping only the most recent data

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2 hours ago, Skysnake said:

If it means anything, I have tested SQLite db with a single table, about 8 columns and 34K rows of data. Returned in 2secs :)

Are you sure about 2 s response time? That's very poor. You must have a bad schema or you timed an unusually complex query.

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@Skysnake

Ha, this explains why.

@gcue

4k characters is no problem for either AutoIt strings in arrays (or not: strings "Can contain strings of up to 2147483647 characters.") nor SQLite (see https://www.sqlite.org/limits.html where you can read: "The maximum number of bytes in a string or BLOB in SQLite is defined by the preprocessor macro SQLITE_MAX_LENGTH. The default value of this macro is 1 billion (1 thousand million or 1,000,000,000). [continued]").

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PCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta.

SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.
SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.
An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.
SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)
A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!
SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt)

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