Question

I need to mass populate my SQLite database — ideally using a script rather than code.

I would like to do this (MySQL syntax) but for SQLite but I’m not sure it you can have variables defined in scripts:

INSERT INTO `parent` (id, name) values(NULL, "some name!");
SET @parentId= last_insert_rowid();
INSERT INTO `child` (id, parentId, name, ) values (NULL, @parentId, 'some name!);

SQLite throws errors when I try to declare variables in my SQLite script. Can this be done in SQLite?

Answer 1

Unfortunately you can’t declare such variable in SQLite script. Moreover AFAIK all statements will not be executed except the first one. Also look HERE