Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Changelog Interviews #201)
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SQLite's Varkar 40 Variable Type Extension
With SQLite, you don't have to give the column a type at all. This is useful in a lot of cases because sometimes you just have a miscellaneous column in a table that you might need to store lots of different things in. So it's just for flexibility purposes. It flows directly out of the scripting language traditions of you don't declare types for variables in tickle. You didn't used to do it in Python. I guess you can do it some now.
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