Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
The database documentation was done largely on RootsMagic version 6.0.0.2. It’s unlikely that the database schema will change through successive updates. However, any changes may be detected by opening a database created by each version with a SQLite manager, then exporting either a query of the full sqlite_master table or the database schema (just the…
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Rev 2019-02-12 This page brings together a set of scripts that: adds ‘friendly’ Waymarks in views of each database table to aid in navigating through RootsMagic to the responsible screen and to help understand the role of each table builds a Full Text Search table, first described on the page Search – Find Almost Everywhere…
A feature oft-requested that, as of version 6.3.3.2, RootsMagic still does not offer while other software does is the ability to create a new database with custom elements from an existing database. This script works around that shortcoming by copying what might be called “Master Lists” from a developed database to a shell database newly…
This script deprecated in favour of Database – Copy Master Lists to Shell (2014-10-13). Makes an empty Master from current database, preserving custom fact types and source templates, Places, Master Sources and associated Repositories and Addresses, and Place/Source Media. Written for RM4 with instructions to edit for RM5. CustomDatabaseShell.sql There are two ways to do…
Promo Using many of these SQL queries or procedures is pretty easy with a SQLite manager such as SQLiteSpy as illustrated in the example below. Even easier, because you don’t even see the SQL scripts that underlay them, is to use the utilities bundled in the dead simple RMtrix application. The stories following relate the…
Rev 2019-02-12 Whether you have deleted or merged within RootsMagic itself or used one of the Delete Many procedures, there remain in various tables residues from the deleted targets that unnecessarily clutter the database and may give rise to phantom appearances related to the deleted targets. For very large databases built from many merges, the…
A singular system table, sqlite_master, resides in a SQLite database. This table in the RootsMagic 6 database essentially defines the RootsMagic 6 database tables, indices, and fields, as below. The difference in structure with RootsMagic 5 is the addition of one new table, URLTable (no index) for WebTags. type name tbl_name rootpage sql table…
Risk Despite its reputation as a robust database system, SQLite is nevertheless vulnerable to disk degradation and disruptions to its disk write operations by power glitches, system crashes, etc. Thus there have been reports of the dreaded error message: SQLite Error 11 – database disk image is malformed. Other error messages may arise from corruption…
This page applies mainly to RootsMagic 4. RM5 incorporates the SQLite tools Integrity Check, Reindex, and Vacuum under the menu File > Database Tools > Test database integrity | Rebuild indexes | Compact database. However, it is not apparent that the Integrity Check is done automatically on start-up so users would be well advised to…