So far your queries have read and changed tables that already existed. CREATE TABLE makes a new one. You give it a name and a list of columns, and it starts with no rows: those come later, with INSERT.
Each column is a name followed by its type, the kind of value it holds: INTEGER for whole numbers, TEXT for words. The columns sit inside parentheses with commas between them, so there is no comma after the last one. A table of discount coupons, for example:
CREATE TABLE coupons (
code TEXT,
percent INTEGER
)
In C#, you write query as short strings, one per line, joined with +. C# glues them into one string, and that string is the SQL. The shop wants to keep its customers' reviews: which product, how many stars, and what the customer wrote. Once your table exists, the check lists its columns with their types, then adds two reviews and reads them back:
name | type id | INTEGER product_id | INTEGER stars | INTEGER text | TEXT (4 rows) id | product_id | stars | text 1 | 1 | 5 | Great mug 2 | 3 | 4 | Nice light (2 rows)
Your task: write a query that creates the table reviews with four columns, in this order: id, product_id and stars, all INTEGER, then text, a TEXT column.
Assignment
Follow the Coding Tutorial to create the reviews table, one column per line.
Hint
Until the last column is in, SQLite refuses the query with a syntax error near ) and the program stops before printing anything: a table needs at least one column, and every comma must be followed by another column. Keep each comma inside the quotes, and put a + after every string but the last one.
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