Make the _ID AUTOINCREMENT and use a UNIQUE constraint on the name.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Abhilash baddam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>            What's the solution for my problem, i want the _id column should
> have integer values and there should be increment. For the column name i
> don't want to add duplicate values. Any alternate is there.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> AUTOINCREMENT is only available on INTEGER PRIMARY KEY columns:
>>
>> http://sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html
>> http://sqlite.org/autoinc.html
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Abhilash baddam
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >     I am trying to create a table, like this
>> >
>> > myDB.execSQL("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bikes_list(_id INTEGER
>> > AUTOINCREMENT, name PRIMARY KEY VARCHAR , availablebikes INT, slots
>> > INT,status VARCHAR);");
>> > but i am getting this Exception,
>> >      ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11141):
>> > Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near
>> > "AUTOINCREMENT":
>> > syntax error: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bikes_list(_id INTEGER
>> > AUTOINCREMENT, name PRIMARY KEY VARCHAR , availablebikes INT, slots
>> > INT,status VARCHAR);
>> >
>> >
>> > what may be the reason..?
>> >
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