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How SQLite Converts Data: Affinity Rules in Action
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SQLite maintains a relationship between storage types (INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB, NULL) and column affinity types (TEXT, NUMERIC, INTEGER, REAL, NONE). Columns with TEXT affinity prefer textual values. INTEGER affinity behaves almost the same as NUMERIC affinity.
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