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Originally Posted by unboggling
Wouldn't it be nice to say to calibre users (particularly power users working with huge datasets) who might want or need it: there is this capabilty to work the SQL thing, and here is how to do it?
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Actually, it scares me. I can see the reports now.
1) My database is hosed -- what do I do?
2) What did you do?
3) I was testing an Excel macro that changes the author names in the DB to base64.
4) Oh...
Updating calibre's database from outside of calibre is a bad idea. Unfortunately I don't see any way to prevent it, other than hope that the missing trigger functions would abort the update.