Question

Working on a simple TimeTracker App. You start a timer, wait a certain time, stop the clock and save spent minutes to a SQLite3 database. All is working as expected, when I tap on save I get a confirmation that record was saved but I can’t get the saved entries shown on the console. As seen in the screenshot below I have a show button which should show me all my saved entries in the console including timestamp but nothing happens when I tap the button.

I think the problem is related to the search query but I can’t figure our whats wrong.

From my understanding the query is looking for the timestamp (column 0) and the spent minutes (column 1) but it doesn’t work, please help.

   NSLog(@"Timestamp: %s - Timing: %s", sqlite3_column_text(statement, 0), sqlite3_column_text(statement, 1));

SQLite database is really simple, I only want to save one value > spent minutes.
Maybe the database is not created correctly??

Database Creation:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    NSString *docsDir;
    NSArray *dirPaths;

    dirPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    docsDir = [dirPaths objectAtIndex:0];

    databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[docsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"timings.db"]];

    NSFileManager *filemgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

    if ([filemgr fileExistsAtPath:databasePath] == NO) 
    {
        const char *dbPath = [databasePath UTF8String];

        if (sqlite3_open(dbPath, &timings) == SQLITE_OK) 
        {
            char *errormsg;
            const char *sql_stmt =
            "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS TIMINGS(ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, TIME INTEGER)";

            if (sqlite3_exec(timings, sql_stmt, NULL, NULL, &errormsg) != SQLITE_OK) 
            {
                self.statusLabel.text = @"Failed to create database";
            }
            sqlite3_close(timings);
        } 
        else 
        {
            self.statusLabel.text = @"Failed to open/create database.";
        }

    }
}

Show saved entries on console:

-(IBAction)showButton:(id)sender
{
    if (sqlite3_open([databasePath UTF8String], &timings) == SQLITE_OK)
    {
        NSString *queryStatement = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT TIMESTAMP, TIME FROM TIMINGS"];

        sqlite3_stmt *statement;
        if (sqlite3_prepare_v2(timings, [queryStatement UTF8String], -1, &statement, NULL) == SQLITE_OK)
        {
            while (sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW) {
                NSLog(@"Timestamp: %s - Timing: %s", sqlite3_column_text(statement, 0), sqlite3_column_text(statement, 1));
            }
            sqlite3_finalize(statement);
            sqlite3_close(timings);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

a friend of mine just realized that I made a big mistake, I totally forgot to CREATE the column ‘TIMESTAMP’ I’m trying to read out here. If you look at this line: "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS TIMINGS(ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, TIME INTEGER)"; You see that I have not created the timestamp column. Last but not least is TIMESTAMP a protected keyword in SQL you are not allowed to use. To save a timestamp I just created and renamed the column and now it’s working. Thanks for all your help.