embed database ?

What is the best method for embbeding a database in an app ?
I mean hard coding it, a database that will never change. I do not want a file outside like an SQLLite or something else. I want it as a multidimensional variable inside the app, but the database is huge.

I am willing to create an app to convert it to standard code if needed. Maybe even crypted.

Thanks

The terms “huge” and “embedded in memory” are conflicting. Are you sure that an external DB is not a solution for your case? That external DB can be encrypted.

When I mean huge is not file size, it is many columns and rows. Too much for copying and pasting, but not large enough for embedding

A matrix of data

What’s the current format of this data? Excel? SQLite? Yet to be typed?

Your usual option would be an Array.

Yes, but is there an app, script or something to create this array ? That’s my question. If not, I may create one.

  1. Don’t know how your current data is stored for a conversion.
  2. Yes. You should probably write a small code to generate the text for this array creation and put inside a module.

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You can create an in-memory SQLiteDatabase if you like. Just instantiate one, keep DatabaseFile nil, and Connect. As for populating it… When you build a GUI app with Xojo on any platform, it will always have a folder structure to include libraries and resources. You could stick a text file of SQL commands in a file and place it in one of those folders. In app.Open, find the file, open it, run the SQL commands.

He doesn’t want external content and his data is just a matrix.

Obrigado !

  1. os dados eu posso converter em qualquer formato, entao nao o problema
  2. vou escrever um app ento !