Android cannot upgrade my database when first query is using readonly database

Question

So I\'ve been so far relying heavily on the automated (well almost) onCreate / onUpgrade method of my SQLite database. It was all work

Answer 1

In my case there was a syntax error: one of the fields was a SQL reserved word. But to see that error message about the syntax I had to add

dbHelper.getWritableDatabase().close();

to MainActivity.onCreate().

Answer 2

Workaround I used: have a method at the "start" of my application that does just getWritableDatabase() and closes it, so that it triggers all the needed create / update if necessary.

Answer 3

Some time column name is repeating during create statement..

create table tbl (Col1 TEXT,Col2 INTEGER,Col3 INTEGER,Col1 INTEGER,Col5 INTEGER); 

Like here Col1 is repeat twice...