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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 17:08:15 +1000
Subject: Re: How to use SQLite (sqlite3) more efficiently
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:27 AM, ps16thypresence wrote:
>>
>> > > I'm completely new to SQL, and recently started using SQLite in
>> > > one of my Python programs.
>
> Unrelated to Python but as you're new to SQL I figured I'd ask: Do you have
> an index on the name field? If you don't, you'll incur a full table scan
> which will be more expensive than if you have an index in the field.
>
> For more info about indexes see http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html.

It's the primary key, which I would normally assume is indexed
implicitly. This is another reason for not breaking the CREATE TABLE
statement at the point where the OP did; it's not obvious that that
field is indexed, this way.

ChrisA