nullvalue: Show NULL Values in SQLite

When using the SQLite command line interface (CLI), by default, whenever a query returns a null value, the output is the empty string ('').

We can change this by using the -nullvalue command line option when launching SQLite.

We can also use the .nullvalue dot command if we’re already in the SQLite CLI.

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2 Ways to Return the Julian Day in SQLite

Here are two methods for returning the Julian Day in SQLite.

The Julian Day is the fractional number of days since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. It’s the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period, and is used primarily by astronomers, and in software for easily calculating elapsed days between two events.

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SQLite ->> Operator

In SQLite, the ->> operator extracts a subcomponent from a JSON document and returns an SQL representation of that subcomponent.

The ->> operator was first introduced in SQLite version 3.38.0 (released on 22 February 2022).

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SQLite -> Operator

In SQLite, the -> operator extracts a subcomponent from a JSON document and returns a JSON representation of that subcomponent.

The -> operator was first introduced in SQLite version 3.38.0 (released on 22 February 2022).

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