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DBD::SQLite::Cookbook (3)

Name

DBD::SQLite::Cookbook - The DBD::SQLite Cookbook

Synopsis

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Description

User Contributed Perl Documentation                   DBD::SQLite::Cookbook(3)



NAME
       DBD::SQLite::Cookbook - The DBD::SQLite Cookbook

DESCRIPTION
       This is the DBD::SQLite cookbook.

       It is intended to provide a place to keep a variety of functions and
       formals for use in callback APIs in DBD::SQLite.

AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
   Variance
       This is a simple aggregate function which returns a variance. It is
       adapted from an example implementation in pysqlite.

         package variance;

         sub new { bless [], shift; }

         sub step {
             my ( $self, $value ) = @_;

             push @$self, $value;
         }

         sub finalize {
             my $self = $_[0];

             my $n = @$self;

             # Variance is NULL unless there is more than one row
             return undef unless $n || $n == 1;

             my $mu = 0;
             foreach my $v ( @$self ) {
                 $mu += $v;
             }
             $mu /= $n;

             my $sigma = 0;
             foreach my $v ( @$self ) {
                 $sigma += ($v - $mu)**2;
             }
             $sigma = $sigma / ($n - 1);

             return $sigma;
         }

         # NOTE: If you use an older DBI (< 1.608),
         # use $dbh->func(..., "create_aggregate") instead.
         $dbh->sqlite_create_aggregate( "variance", 1, 'variance' );

       The function can then be used as:

         SELECT group_name, variance(score)
         FROM results
         GROUP BY group_name;

   Variance (Memory Efficient)
       A more efficient variance function, optimized for memory usage at the
       expense of precision:

         package variance2;

         sub new { bless {sum => 0, count=>0, hash=> {} }, shift; }

         sub step {
             my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
             my $hash = $self->{hash};

             # by truncating and hashing, we can comsume many more data points
             $value = int($value); # change depending on need for precision
                                   # use sprintf for arbitrary fp precision
             if (exists $hash->{$value}) {
                 $hash->{$value}++;
             } else {
                 $hash->{$value} = 1;
             }
             $self->{sum} += $value;
             $self->{count}++;
         }

         sub finalize {
             my $self = $_[0];

             # Variance is NULL unless there is more than one row
             return undef unless $self->{count} > 1;

             # calculate avg
             my $mu = $self->{sum} / $self->{count};

             my $sigma = 0;
             while (my ($h, $v) = each %{$self->{hash}}) {
                 $sigma += (($h - $mu)**2) * $v;
             }
             $sigma = $sigma / ($self->{count} - 1);

             return $sigma;
         }

       The function can then be used as:

         SELECT group_name, variance2(score)
         FROM results
         GROUP BY group_name;

   Variance (Highly Scalable)
       A third variable implementation, designed for arbitrarily large data
       sets:

         package variance3;

         sub new { bless {mu=>0, count=>0, S=>0}, shift; }

         sub step {
             my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
             $self->{count}++;
             my $delta = $value - $self->{mu};
             $self->{mu} += $delta/$self->{count};
             $self->{S} += $delta*($value - $self->{mu});
         }

         sub finalize {
             my $self = $_[0];
             return $self->{S} / ($self->{count} - 1);
         }

       The function can then be used as:

         SELECT group_name, variance3(score)
         FROM results
         GROUP BY group_name;

SUPPORT
       Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at

       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=DBD-SQLite>

TO DO
       o   Add more and varied cookbook recipes, until we have enough to turn
           them into a separate CPAN distribution.

       o   Create a series of tests scripts that validate the cookbook
           recipes.

AUTHOR
       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2009 - 2012 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
       with this module.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |Availability   | library/perl-5/dbd-sqlite-532 |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile                      |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/DBD-
       SQLite-1.70.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://github.com/DBD-SQLite/DBD-SQLite.



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