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Asked: 2026-06-04T14:55:16+00:00

I’m setting up an SQLite Database and I’ve got most things set up how

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I’m setting up an SQLite Database and I’ve got most things set up how I think they’re supposed to be. The main error has to with a column not being where it should be. I initialized the database column names in strings like so:

public static final String KEY_ROWID = "_id";
public static final String KEY_SPORT = "given_sport";
public static final String KEY_NAME = "given_name";
public static final String KEY_DATE = "given_date";
public static final String KEY_TIME = "given_time";
public static final String KEY_PERIOD = "given_period";
public static final String KEY_LOCATION = "given_location";

When it was time to create a table with the column names:

db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE " + DATABASE_TABLE + " (" + 
                KEY_ROWID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, " + 
                KEY_SPORT + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + 
                KEY_NAME + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + 
                KEY_DATE + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + 
                KEY_TIME + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + 
                KEY_PERIOD + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + 
                KEY_LOCATION + "TEXT NOT NULL);"
);

The problem now is that I’m getting the following error:

05-27 04:13:01.448: E/Database(273): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: table groupTable has no column named given_location: , while compiling: INSERT INTO groupTable(given_location, given_time, given_date, given_period, given_sport, given_name) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?);

It seems like the table names are being reordered and that’s what is causing the error in insertion. I’m clueless though and I’d really appreciate some help with this.

EDIT: here’s the INSERT command

    ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
    cv.put(KEY_SPORT, sportInput);
    cv.put(KEY_NAME, nameInput);
    cv.put(KEY_DATE, dateInput);
    cv.put(KEY_TIME, timeInput);
    cv.put(KEY_PERIOD, periodInput);
    cv.put(KEY_LOCATION, locationInput);
    return dbSQL.insert(DATABASE_TABLE, null, cv);
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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is probably that you’ve changed the database structure but not the database version. It’s a weird issue that I had to spend a lot of time figuring out the first time.

    In your DatabaseHelper class there should be a version number, just increment it by one anytime you change any table schema etc.

    EDIT

    You’re missing a space before the “TEXT” in your SQL table creation.

    It should be:

    …
    + KEY_LOCATION+ ” TEXT” …

    once you fix that, increment the version number again.

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