In SQLite, you can use the instr() function to return the position of a given character within a string.
The function only returns the position of the first occurrence of the character (if any).
If the character isn’t found, then it returns 0.
If either of the arguments are NULL, then it returns NULL.
Continue readingSQLite has a function called last_insert_rowid() that returns the ROWID of the last row insert from the database connection which invoked the function.
The SQLite length() function returns the number of characters in a string, number, or blob.
If there are any NUL characters, it returns the number of characters before the first NUL character.
Continue readingThe SQLite quote() function allows you to escape a string so that it’s suitable for inclusion in an SQL statement.
Strings are surrounded by single-quotes with escapes on interior quotes.
BLOBs are encoded as hexadecimal literals.
Note that strings with embedded NUL characters cannot be represented as string literals in SQL. If you include strings with embedded NUL characters, the returned string literal is truncated prior to the first NUL.
Continue readingIn SQLite, you can use the random() function to generate a pseudo-random number.
This is great, but the value returned is between -9223372036854775808 and +9223372036854775807.
What if you need a random number between 0 and 10? Or say, 1 and 100?
Fortunately you can do this by combining random() with abs() and the modulo operator.
SQLite has a function called nullif() and another function called ifnull(), each of which serve a different purpose.
nullif() allows you to treat certain values as NULL. You can think of it as “return NULL if …”.ifnull() allows you to replace NULL values with another value. You can think of it as “if NULL, then …”.So they basically do the opposite of each other. One replaces NULL values with another value, and the other replaces another value with NULL.
Continue readingThe SQLite typeof() function allows you to determine the data type of an expression.
An expression can be one of the following data types:
The SQLite randomblob() function returns a blob containing pseudo-random bytes.
The number of bytes is determined by its argument. If its argument is less than 1 then a 1-byte random blob is returned.
Continue readingThe SQLite replace() function enables us to replace one string (or part of a string) with another string.
The way it works is that you provide three arguments; the string that contains the substring to replace, the substring within that string to replace, and the string to replace it with.
Continue readingIn SQLite, you can use the unicode() function to return the unicode code point for a given character.
The way it works is that it returns the unicode code point for the first character of the string that you provide.
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