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I have a SQLite table that I’m using for my iPad app. It currently has about 500 items, but I need to add about 200+ more. The thing is, the app is already deployed and has users, and it’s an editable database in the documents directory, so it’s not like I can just overwrite it. How can I add these new rows easily without destroying the table that I already have? It would be nice to import a txt somehow without having to do this manually. (For the record I am not using Core Data.)
Throwing out some ideas:
Can you not deploy a new database file in your update, and programatically detect if there is an existing db. If so, add the new data to the database and if not create a new db programatically, and add all your data to it.
You could store the setup data in an xml file perhaps?
ALTERNATELY, could your update have a second database? You don’t overwrite your original db and you add a v1.1 db file? You could then merge the v1.1 data into the original db?