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SQLite’s Flexible Typing: Storage Types and Column Affinity
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This column can only store integer values. SQLite determines column affinity by inspecting the declared SQL type in the CREATE TABLE statement. If the declared type contains the substring INT, the column receives INTEGER affinity.
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