DBD::SQLite::Cookbook(3)

NAME
DBD::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 <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.