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Learning SQLite for iOS

By : Gene Da Rocha
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Learning SQLite for iOS

By: Gene Da Rocha

Overview of this book

The ability to use SQLite with iOS provides a great opportunity to build amazing apps. Apple's iOS SDK provides native support for SQLite databases. This combination offers the potential to create powerful, data-persistent applications. This book starts with the architecture of SQLite database and introduces you to concepts in SQL . You will find yourself equipped to design your own database system, administer it, and maintain it. Further, you will learn how to operate your SQLite databases smoothly using SQL commands. You will be able to extend the functionality of SQLite by using its vast arsenal of C API calls to build some interesting, exciting, new, and intelligent data-driven applications. Understand how Xcode, HTML5, and Phonegap can be used to build a cross-platform modern app which can benefit from all these technologies - all through creating a complete, customizable application skeleton that you can build on for your own apps.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning SQLite for iOS
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Administering the Database

In this chapter, we are going to introduce you to administering the SQLite database and make you aware of the different components of this relational database system that best suits the mobile or tablet devices. SQLite is an embedded SQL engine and simply reads and writes to ordinary disk files instead of having a separate server process. It was designed for this purpose and is much easier to maintain and look after.

Apart from being a great database for programmers, SQLite is also an easier database to administer and maintain. There is no configuration or setup required to administer this database. It comes with a standard command-line interface (CLI) client that is available to administer the database(s).

There is a variety of languages that work with SQLite which are easier to maintain and add new functionality.

The following are the features of SQLite:

  • SQLite is one of the most easy-to-learn databases, is easy to interact with, and gets on with the task...