DBD::SQLite::Cookbook(User Contributed Perl DocumentatDBD::SQLite::Cookbook(3)NAMEDBD::SQLite::Cookbook - The DBD::SQLite Cookbook
DESCRIPTION
This is the DBD::SQLite cookbook.
It is intended to provide a place to keep a variety of functions and
formals for use in callback APIs in DBD::SQLite.
AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
Variance
This is a simple aggregate function which returns a variance. It is
adapted from an example implementation in pysqlite.
package variance;
sub new { bless [], shift; }
sub step {
my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
push @$self, $value;
}
sub finalize {
my $self = $_[0];
my $n = @$self;
# Variance is NULL unless there is more than one row
return undef unless $n || $n == 1;
my $mu = 0;
foreach my $v ( @$self ) {
$mu += $v;
}
$mu /= $n;
my $sigma = 0;
foreach my $v ( @$self ) {
$sigma += ($v - $mu)**2;
}
$sigma = $sigma / ($n - 1);
return $sigma;
}
# NOTE: If you use an older DBI (< 1.608),
# use $dbh->func(..., "create_aggregate") instead.
$dbh->sqlite_create_aggregate( "variance", 1, 'variance' );
The function can then be used as:
SELECT group_name, variance(score)
FROM results
GROUP BY group_name;
Variance (Memory Efficient)
A more efficient variance function, optimized for memory usage at the
expense of precision:
package variance2;
sub new { bless {sum => 0, count=>0, hash=> {} }, shift; }
sub step {
my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
my $hash = $self->{hash};
# by truncating and hashing, we can comsume many more data points
$value = int($value); # change depending on need for precision
# use sprintf for arbitrary fp precision
if (exists $hash->{$value}) {
$hash->{$value}++;
} else {
$hash->{$value} = 1;
}
$self->{sum} += $value;
$self->{count}++;
}
sub finalize {
my $self = $_[0];
# Variance is NULL unless there is more than one row
return undef unless $self->{count} > 1;
# calculate avg
my $mu = $self->{sum} / $self->{count};
my $sigma = 0;
while (my ($h, $v) = each %{$self->{hash}}) {
$sigma += (($h - $mu)**2) * $v;
}
$sigma = $sigma / ($self->{count} - 1);
return $sigma;
}
The function can then be used as:
SELECT group_name, variance2(score)
FROM results
GROUP BY group_name;
Variance (Highly Scalable)
A third variable implementation, designed for arbitrarily large data
sets:
package variance3;
sub new { bless {mu=>0, count=>0, S=>0}, shift; }
sub step {
my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
$self->{count}++;
my $delta = $value - $self->{mu};
$self->{mu} += $delta/$self->{count};
$self->{S} += $delta*($value - $self->{mu});
}
sub finalize {
my $self = $_[0];
return $self->{S} / ($self->{count} - 1);
}
The function can then be used as:
SELECT group_name, variance3(score)
FROM results
GROUP BY group_name;
FTS fulltext indexing
Sparing database disk space
As explained in <http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#fts4_options>, several
options are available to specify how SQLite should store indexed
documents.
One strategy is to use SQLite only for the fulltext index and metadata,
and keep the full documents outside of SQLite; to do so, use the
"content=""" option. For example, the following SQL creates an FTS4
table with three columns - "a", "b", and "c":
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE t1 USING fts4(content="", a, b, c);
Data can be inserted into such an FTS4 table using an INSERT
statements. However, unlike ordinary FTS4 tables, the user must supply
an explicit integer docid value. For example:
-- This statement is Ok:
INSERT INTO t1(docid, a, b, c) VALUES(1, 'a b c', 'd e f', 'g h i');
-- This statement causes an error, as no docid value has been provided:
INSERT INTO t1(a, b, c) VALUES('j k l', 'm n o', 'p q r');
Of course your application will need an algorithm for finding the
external resource corresponding to any docid stored within SQLite.
Furthermore, SQLite "offsets()" and "snippet()" functions cannot be
used, so if such functionality is needed, it has to be directly
programmed within the Perl application.
SUPPORT
Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=DBD-SQLite>
TO DO
· Add more and varied cookbook recipes, until we have enough to turn
them into a separate CPAN distribution.
· Create a series of tests scripts that validate the cookbook
recipes.
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Laurent Dami <dami@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2009 - 2012 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
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