Data From MySQL to SQLite

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Thu May 23 17:36:51 EDT 2013


On May 23, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> Library???  assuming that the names/types are compatible,
> 
> put revDataFromQuery(tab,vtab,inDbno,"SELECT * FROM inTable) into theData
> 
> put "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" & cr into dcmd
> 
> set the itemDel to vtab
> repeat for each item theLin  in theData
> put "INSERT INTO outTable VALUES( " & theLin & ");" & cr after dcmd
> end repeat
> put "COMMIT;" & cr after dcmd
> 
> revExecuteSql outDb, dcmd
> 
> 
> You could also simply insert the values at each step of the loop, but
> that's time consuming if you have a remote db.

I didn't mention that my data contains one field with long xml-formatted data, so to avoid conflicts with delimiters I have to use 

… revDataFromQuery(numToChar(31),numToChar(30) …

Can my values list use non-comma delimiters?

Devin


Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University





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