C H A P T E R 11
SQLite Internals and New Features
Our last chapter is a collection of topics devoted to the internals of SQLite. The material here is collected from topics raised by Richard Hipp, SQLite's founder, over the past year or so. Importantly, we'll highlight one of the biggest changes to happen to SQLite in recent versions: the introduction of the Write-Ahead Log model. We'll also briefly explore how the pager and B-trees work and go into a little more detail on the underpinnings of data types, affinity, and the SQLite approach to typing.
This isn't an exhaustive description of the inner workings of SQLite, because that's covered ...
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