The SQLite typeof() function allows you to determine the data type of an expression.
An expression can be one of the following data types:
- null
- integer
- real
- text
- blob
The 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.
SQLite includes a PRAGMA statement that allows you to check for foreign key violations on a whole database or a given table.
The statement is PRAGMA foreign_key_check, and it works as follows.
In SQLite, you can use a PRAGMA statement to return a list of foreign keys for a given table.
If you ever need to enable or disable all CHECK constraints in SQLite, you can use the ignore_check_constraints PRAGMA statement.
This pragma statement explicitly enables or disables the enforcement of CHECK constraints. The default setting is off, meaning that CHECK constraints are enforced by default.
In SQLite, you can create a CHECK constraint by adding the applicable code within the CREATE TABLE statement when creating the table.
If a table has a CHECK constraint on it, and you try to insert or update data that violates the CHECK constraint, the operation will fail with an error.