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+<div id="toc_sub"><div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#overview">1. Overview</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#sqlite_is_embedded_not_client_server">2. SQLite Is Embedded, Not Client-Server</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#flexible_typing">3. Flexible Typing</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc2"><a href="#no_separate_boolean_datatype">3.1. No Separate BOOLEAN Datatype</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc2"><a href="#no_separate_datetime_datatype">3.2. No Separate DATETIME Datatype</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc2"><a href="#the_datatype_is_optional">3.3. The datatype is optional</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#foreign_key_enforcement_is_off_by_default">4. Foreign Key Enforcement Is Off By Default</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#primary_keys_can_sometimes_contain_nulls">5. PRIMARY KEYs Can Sometimes Contain NULLs</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#aggregate_queries_can_contain_non_aggregate_result_columns_that_are_not_in_the_group_by_clause">6. Aggregate Queries Can Contain Non-Aggregate Result Columns
+That Are Not In The GROUP BY Clause</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#does_not_do_full_unicode_case_folding_by_default">7. Does Not Do Full Unicode Case Folding By Default</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#double_quoted_string_literals_are_accepted">8. Double-quoted String Literals Are Accepted</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#keywords_can_often_be_used_as_identifiers">9. Keywords Can Often Be Used As Identifiers</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#dubious_sql_is_allowed_without_any_error_or_warning">10. Dubious SQL Is Allowed Without Any Error Or Warning</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#autoincrement_does_not_work_the_same_as_mysql">11. AUTOINCREMENT Does Not Work The Same As MySQL</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#nul_characters_are_allowed_in_text_strings">12. NUL Characters Are Allowed In Text Strings</a></div>
+<div class="fancy-toc1"><a href="#sqlite_distinguishes_between_integer_and_text_literals">13. SQLite Distinguishes Between Integer And Text Literals</a></div>
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+
+
+<h1 id="overview"><span>1. </span>Overview</h1>
+
+<p>
+The SQL language is a "standard".
+Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike.
+Every SQL implementation has it own peculiarities and oddities,
+and SQLite is no exception to this rule.
+
+</p><p>
+This document strives to highlight the principal differences
+between SQLite and other SQL implementations, as an aid to developers
+that are porting to or from SQLite or who are trying to build a
+system that works across multiple database engines.
+
+</p><p>
+If you are an SQLite user whose has stumbled over some quirk of
+SQLite that is not mentioned here, please let the developers know
+by posting a brief message on the
+<a href="https://sqlite.org/forum/forum">SQLite Forum</a>.
+
+</p><h1 id="sqlite_is_embedded_not_client_server"><span>2. </span>SQLite Is Embedded, Not Client-Server</h1>
+
+<p>
+Whenever comparing SQLite to other SQL database engines like
+SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, it is important first of all
+to realize that SQLite is not intended as a replacement or competitor to
+any of those systems. SQLite is <a href="serverless.html">serverless</a>. There is no separate
+server process that manages the database. An application interacts
+with the database engine using function calls, not by sending messages
+to a separate process or thread.
+
+</p><p>
+The fact that SQLite is embedded and <a href="serverless.html">serverless</a> instead of being
+client/server is a feature, not a bug.
+
+</p><p>
+Client/server databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and
+others are an important component of modern systems.
+These systems solve an important problem.
+But SQLite solves a different problem.
+Both SQLite and client/server databases have their role.
+Developers who are comparing SQLite against other SQL database engines need
+to clearly understand this distinction.
+
+</p><p>
+See the <a href="whentouse.html">Appropriate Uses For SQLite</a> document for additional information.
+
+</p><h1 id="flexible_typing"><span>3. </span>Flexible Typing</h1>
+
+<p>
+SQLite is flexible with regard to datatypes. Datatypes are advisory
+rather than mandatory.
+
+</p><p>
+Some commentators say that SQLite is "weakly typed" and that other
+SQL databases are "strongly typed". We consider these terms to be
+inaccurate and even pejorative. We prefer to say that SQLite is
+"flexibly typed" and that other SQL database engines are
+"rigidly typed".
+
+</p><p>
+See the <a href="datatype3.html">Datatypes in SQLite</a> document for a detailed
+discussion of the type system in SQLite.
+
+</p><p>
+The key point is that SQLite is very forgiving of the type of data that
+you put into the database. For example, if a column has a datatype of
+"INTEGER" and the application inserts a text string into that column,
+SQLite will first try to convert the text string into an integer, just like
+every other SQL database engine. Thus, if one inserts <b>'1234'</b> into
+an INTEGER column, that value is converted into an integer 1234 and stored.
+But, if you insert a non-numeric string like <b>'wxyz'</b> into an INTEGER
+column, unlike other SQL databases, SQLite does not throw an error. Instead,
+SQLite stores the actual string value in the column.
+
+</p><p>
+Similarly, SQLite allows you to store a 2000-character string into a
+column of type VARCHAR(50). Other SQL implementations would either throw
+an error or truncate the string. SQLite stores the entire 2000-character
+string with no loss of information and without complaint.
+
+</p><p>
+Where this ends up causing problems is when developers do some initial
+coding work using SQLite and get their application working, but then try
+to convert to another database like PostgreSQL or SQL Server for deployment.
+If the application is initially taking advantage of SQLite's flexible typing,
+then it will fail when moved to another database that uses a more rigid
+and unforgiving type enforcement policy.
+
+</p><p>
+<a href="flextypegood.html">Flexible typing is a feature</a> of SQLite, not a bug. Flexible typing
+is about freedom.
+Nevertheless, we recognize that this feature does sometimes cause
+confusion for developers who are accustomed to working with
+other databases that are more strict with regard to data type rules.
+In retrospect, perhaps it would have been less confusing if SQLite had merely
+implemented an ANY datatype so that developers could explicitly state
+when they wanted to use flexible typing, rather than making flexible
+typing the default.
+As an accommodation for those who expect rigid typing, SQLite version 3.37.0
+(2021-11-27) introduced the option of <a href="stricttables.html">STRICT tables</a>.
+These either impose
+the mandatory datatype constraints found in other SQL database engines,
+or allow the explicit ANY datatype to retain SQLite's flexible typing.
+
+</p><h2 id="no_separate_boolean_datatype"><span>3.1. </span>No Separate BOOLEAN Datatype</h2>
+
+<p>
+Unlike most other SQL implementations,
+SQLite does not have a separate BOOLEAN data type.
+Instead, TRUE and FALSE are (normally) represented as integers 1 and 0,
+respectively.
+This does not seem to cause many problems, as we seldom get complaints
+about it. But it is important to recognize.
+
+</p><p>
+Beginning with SQLite <a href="releaselog/3_23_0.html">version 3.23.0</a> (2018-04-02), SQLite also
+recognizes TRUE and FALSE keywords as aliases for integer values 1 and 0,
+respectively.
+This provides better compatibility with other SQL implementations.
+But for backwards compatibility, if there are columns named TRUE or
+FALSE, then the keywords are treated as identifiers referencing those
+columns, rather than BOOLEAN literals.
+
+</p><h2 id="no_separate_datetime_datatype"><span>3.2. </span>No Separate DATETIME Datatype</h2>
+
+<p>
+SQLite has no DATETIME datatype.
+Instead, dates and times can be stored in any of these ways:
+
+</p><ul>
+<li> As a TEXT string in the ISO-8601 format. Example: '2018-04-02 12:13:46'.
+</li><li> As an INTEGER number of seconds since 1970 (also known as "unix time").
+</li><li> As a REAL value that is the fractional
+ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day">Julian day number</a>.
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>
+The built-in <a href="lang_datefunc.html">date and time functions</a> of SQLite understand date/times in
+all of the formats above, and can freely change between them.
+Which format you use, is entirely up to your application.
+
+</p><h2 id="the_datatype_is_optional"><span>3.3. </span>The datatype is optional</h2>
+
+<p>
+Because SQLite is flexible and forgiving with regard to datatypes,
+table columns can be created that have no specified datatype at all.
+For example:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>CREATE TABLE t1(a,b,c,d);
+</pre></div>
+<p>The table "t1" has four columns "a", "b", "c", and "d" that have
+no particular datatype assigned. You can store anything you want in
+any of those columns.</p>
+
+<h1 id="foreign_key_enforcement_is_off_by_default"><span>4. </span>Foreign Key Enforcement Is Off By Default</h1>
+
+<p>SQLite has parsed foreign key constraints for time out of mind,
+but added the ability to actually enforce those constraints much later,
+with <a href="releaselog/3_6_19.html">version 3.6.19</a> (2009-10-14). By the time foreign key constraint
+enforcement was added, there were already countless millions of databases
+in circulation that contained foreign key constraints, some of which
+were not correct. To avoid breaking those legacy databases, foreign key
+constraint enforcement is turned off by default in SQLite.
+
+</p><p>Applications can activate foreign key enforcement at run-time using
+the <a href="pragma.html#pragma_foreign_keys">PRAGMA foreign_keys</a> statement. Or, foreign key enforcement can
+be activated at compile-time using the
+<a href="compile.html#default_foreign_keys">-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1</a> compile-time option.
+
+</p><h1 id="primary_keys_can_sometimes_contain_nulls"><span>5. </span>PRIMARY KEYs Can Sometimes Contain NULLs</h1>
+
+<p>
+Usually (the exceptions are <a href="lang_createtable.html#rowid">INTEGER PRIMARY KEY</a> tables and
+<a href="withoutrowid.html">WITHOUT ROWID</a> tables) a PRIMARY KEY in an SQLite table is really
+the same as a UNIQUE constraint. Due to an historical oversight,
+the column values of such a PRIMARY KEY are allowed to be NULL.
+This is a bug, but by the time the problem was discovered there
+where so many databases in circulation that depended on the bug that
+the decision was made to support the buggy behavior moving forward.
+</p><p>
+The value of an <a href="lang_createtable.html#rowid">INTEGER PRIMARY KEY</a> column must always be a
+non-NULL integer. The PRIMARY KEY columns of a <a href="withoutrowid.html">WITHOUT ROWID</a>
+table are also required to be non-NULL.
+
+</p><h1 id="aggregate_queries_can_contain_non_aggregate_result_columns_that_are_not_in_the_group_by_clause"><span>6. </span>Aggregate Queries Can Contain Non-Aggregate Result Columns
+That Are Not In The GROUP BY Clause</h1>
+
+<p>
+In most SQL implementations, output columns of an aggregate query
+may only reference aggregate functions or columns named in the
+GROUP BY clause. It does not make good sense to reference an ordinary
+column in an aggregate query because each output row might be composed
+from two or more rows in the input table(s).
+
+</p><p>
+SQLite does not enforce this restriction.
+The output columns from an aggregate query can be arbitrary expressions
+that include columns not found in GROUP BY clause.
+This feature has two uses:
+
+</p><ol>
+<li><p>
+With SQLite (but not any other SQL implementation that we know of) if
+an aggregate query contains a single min() or max() function, then the
+values of columns used in the output are taken from the row where
+the min() or max() value was achieved. If two or more rows have the
+same min() or max() value, then the columns values will be chosen arbitrarily
+from one of those rows.
+</p><p>
+For example to find the highest paid employee:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>SELECT max(salary), first_name, last_name FROM employee;
+</pre></div>
+<p>
+In the query above, the values for the first_name and last_name columns
+will correspond to the row that satisfied the max(salary) condition.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+If a query contains no aggregate functions at all, then a GROUP BY
+clause can be added as a substitute for the DISTINCT ON clause. In other words,
+output rows are filtered so that only one row is shown for each distinct
+set of values in the GROUP BY clause. If two or more output rows would
+have otherwise had the same set of values for the GROUP BY columns, then
+one of the rows is chosen arbitrarily. (SQLite supports DISTINCT but not
+DISTINCT ON, whose functionality is provided instead by GROUP BY.)
+</p></li></ol>
+
+<h1 id="does_not_do_full_unicode_case_folding_by_default"><span>7. </span>Does Not Do Full Unicode Case Folding By Default</h1>
+
+<p>
+SQLite does not know about the upper-case/lower-case distinction
+for all unicode characters. SQL functions like
+upper() and lower() only work on ASCII characters. There are two
+reasons for this:
+</p><ol>
+<li> Though stable now, when SQLite was first designed, the rules for
+ unicode case folding were still in flux. That means that the
+ behavior might have changed with each new unicode release, disrupting
+ applications and corrupting indexes in the process.
+</li><li> The tables necessary to do full and proper unicode case folding are
+ larger than the whole SQLite library.
+</li></ol>
+<p>
+Full unicode case folding is supported in SQLite if it is compiled
+with the <a href="compile.html#enable_icu">-DSQLITE_ENABLE_ICU</a> option and linked against the
+<a href="https://icu.unicode.org">International Components for Unicode</a>
+library.
+
+<a name="dblquote"></a>
+
+</p><h1 id="double_quoted_string_literals_are_accepted"><span>8. </span>Double-quoted String Literals Are Accepted</h1>
+
+<p>
+The SQL standard requires double-quotes around identifiers
+and single-quotes around string literals. For example:
+</p><ul>
+<li> <tt>"this is a legal SQL column name"</tt>
+</li><li> <tt>'this is an SQL string literal'</tt>
+</li></ul>
+<p>
+SQLite accepts both of the above. But, in an effort to be compatible
+with MySQL 3.x (which was one of the most widely used RDBMSes
+when SQLite was first being designed) SQLite will also interpret
+a double-quotes string as
+string literal if it does not match any valid identifier.
+</p><p>
+This misfeature means that a misspelled double-quoted
+identifier will be interpreted as a string literal, rather than generating
+an error.
+It also lures developers who are new to the SQL language into the
+bad habit of using double-quoted string literals when they
+really need to learn to use the correct single-quoted string literal form.
+</p><p>
+In hindsight, we should not have tried to make SQLite accept MySQL 3.x
+syntax, and should have never allowed double-quoted string literals.
+However, there are countless applications that make use of
+double-quoted string literals and so we continue to support
+that capability to avoid breaking legacy.
+</p><p>
+As of SQLite 3.27.0 (2019-02-07) the use of a double-quoted
+string literal causes a warning message to be sent to the <a href="errlog.html">error log</a>.
+</p><p>
+As of SQLite 3.29.0 (2019-07-10) the use of double-quoted
+string literals can be disabled at run-time using the
+<a href="c3ref/c_dbconfig_defensive.html#sqlitedbconfigdqsddl">SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DDL</a> and <a href="c3ref/c_dbconfig_defensive.html#sqlitedbconfigdqsdml">SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DML</a> actions
+to <a href="c3ref/db_config.html">sqlite3_db_config()</a>. The default settings can be altered
+at compile-time using the <a href="compile.html#dqs">-DSQLITE_DQS=<i>N</i></a> compile-time
+option. Application developers are encouraged to compile using
+-DSQLITE_DQS=0 in order to disable the double-quoted string literal
+misfeature by default. If that is not possible, then disable
+double-quoted string literals for individual database connections
+using C-code like this:
+</p><blockquote><pre>
+sqlite3_db_config(db, SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DDL, 0, (void*)0);
+sqlite3_db_config(db, SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DML, 0, (void*)0);
+</pre></blockquote>
+<p>Or, if double-quoted string literals are disabled by default, but need
+to be selectively enabled for some historical database connections,
+that can be done using the same C-code as shown above except with the
+third parameter changed from 0 to 1.
+</p><p>
+As of SQLite 3.41.0 (2023-02-21) SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DDL and
+SQLTIE_DBCONFIG_DQS_DML are disabled by default in the <a href="cli.html">CLI</a>. Use
+the ".dbconfig" dot-command to reenable the legacy behavior if
+desired.
+
+</p><h1 id="keywords_can_often_be_used_as_identifiers"><span>9. </span>Keywords Can Often Be Used As Identifiers</h1>
+
+<p>
+The SQL language is rich in keywords.
+Most SQL implementations do not allow keywords to be used as identifiers
+(names of tables or columns) unless they are enclosed in double-quotes.
+But SQLite is more flexible. Many keywords can be used as identifiers without
+needing to be quoted, as long as those keywords are used in a context where
+it is clear that they are intended to be an identifier.
+</p><p>
+For example, the following statement is valid in SQLite:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>CREATE TABLE union(true INT, with BOOLEAN);
+</pre></div>
+<p>
+The same SQL statement will fail on every other SQL implementation that
+we know of due to the use of keywords "union", "true", and "with" as
+identifiers.
+</p><p>
+The ability to use keywords as identifiers promotes backwards compatibility.
+As new keywords are added, legacy schemas that just happen to use those
+keywords as table or column names continue to work. However, the ability
+to use a keyword as an identifier sometimes leads to surprising outcomes.
+For example:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>CREATE TRIGGER AFTER INSERT ON tableX BEGIN
+ INSERT INTO tableY(b) VALUES(new.a);
+END;
+</pre></div>
+<p>The trigger created by the previous statement is named "AFTER"
+and it is a "BEFORE" trigger. The "AFTER" token is used as an identifier
+instead of as a keyword, as that is the only way to parse the statement.
+Another example:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>CREATE TABLE tableZ(INTEGER PRIMARY KEY);
+</pre></div>
+<p>The tableZ table has a single column named "INTEGER". That column
+has no datatype specified, but it is the PRIMARY KEY.
+The column is <em>not</em> the <a href="lang_createtable.html#rowid">INTEGER PRIMARY KEY</a> for the table because
+it has no datatype. The "INTEGER" token is used as an identifier for the
+column name, not as a datatype keyword.</p>
+
+<h1 id="dubious_sql_is_allowed_without_any_error_or_warning"><span>10. </span>Dubious SQL Is Allowed Without Any Error Or Warning</h1>
+
+<p>
+The original implementation of SQLite sought to follow
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle">Postel's Law</a> which
+states in part "Be liberal in what you accept".
+This used to be considered good design - that a system would accept
+dodgy inputs and try to do the best it could without complaining too much.
+But lately, people have come to realize that it is sometimes better to
+be strict in what you accept, so as to more easily find errors in the
+input.
+</p><p>
+
+</p><h1 id="autoincrement_does_not_work_the_same_as_mysql"><span>11. </span>AUTOINCREMENT Does Not Work The Same As MySQL</h1>
+
+<p>The <a href="autoinc.html">AUTOINCREMENT</a> feature in SQLite works differently than
+it does in MySQL. This often causes confusion for people who
+initially learned SQL on MySQL and then start using SQLite, and
+expect the two systems to work identically.
+
+</p><p>See the <a href="autoinc.html">SQLite AUTOINCREMENT documentation</a> for
+detailed instructions on what AUTOINCREMENT does and does not do
+in SQLite.
+
+</p><h1 id="nul_characters_are_allowed_in_text_strings"><span>12. </span>NUL Characters Are Allowed In Text Strings</h1>
+
+<p>NUL characters (ASCII code 0x00 and Unicode \u0000) may appear in
+the middle of strings in SQLite. This can lead to unexpected behavior.
+See the "<a href="nulinstr.html">NUL characters in strings</a>" document for further information.
+
+</p><h1 id="sqlite_distinguishes_between_integer_and_text_literals"><span>13. </span>SQLite Distinguishes Between Integer And Text Literals</h1>
+
+<p>SQLite says that the following query returns false:
+</p><div class="codeblock"><pre>SELECT 1='1';
+</pre></div>
+<p>It does this because an integer is not a string.
+Every other major SQL database engine says this is true, for reasons
+that the creator of SQLite does not understand.
+</p><p align="center"><small><i>This page last modified on <a href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/honeypot" id="mtimelink" data-href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/finfo/pages/quirks.in?m=52efdab3cb">2023-04-16 12:53:27</a> UTC </small></i></p>
+