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SQLite best practices

Source-linked guidance on SQLite fundamentals: WAL mode, query plans, type affinity, foreign key enforcement, and online backup. Scoped to SQLite; not a general SQL or relational-database corpus.

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Foreign key enforcement pragma

SQLite has supported SQL foreign key constraints since version 3.6.19, but enforcement is disabled by default for backwards compatibility: every database connection must enable…

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Indexes and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN

EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN returns a high-level description of the strategy SQLite uses to implement a specific SQL query — most significantly, how the query uses database indexes. For…

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Online backup with the Backup API

The SQLite Online Backup API copies the contents of one database into another while the source is running, replacing the historical approach of taking a shared lock on the…

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Transactions and WAL mode

A SQLite database connection defaults to journal_mode=DELETE; convert it to write-ahead logging with PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL, which returns the string "wal" on success or the…

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Type affinity and dynamic typing

Most SQL database engines use static, rigid typing, where a value's datatype is determined by its container column; SQLite uses a dynamic type system in which the datatype is…

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