Check if a column exists in SQLite

Question

I need to check to see if a column exists and if it doesn\'t exist add it. From my research it looks like sqlite doesn\'t support IF statements and case statement should be

Answer 1

You did not specify a language, so assuming it's not pure sql, you can check for errors on column querying:

SELECT col FROM table;

if you get an error so you know the column is not there (assuming you know the table exists, anyway you have the "IF NOT EXISTS" for this), otherwise the column exists and then you can alter the table accordingly.