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One of the appropriate uses for sqlite3 is ‘in-memory databases’. This sounds like a really useful tool for my C++ applications. Does anyone have an example of how this is done in C or C++? I’m specifically looking for a canonical way to slurp several flat-files into an in-memory database, then do some joins.
It’s actually quite easy. Just specify ‘:memory:’ as the database filename when opening a database using the C/C++ API. It’s a special constant that the engine will recognize. The same actually works for other languages such as Python or Ruby, since they typically just wrap the C/C++ API. See http://sqlite.org/c3ref/open.html for complete details.