SQL Features That SQLite Does Not Implement

SQL Features That SQLite Does Not Implement

SQLite implements most of the common features of SQL. Rather than try to list all the features of SQL that SQLite does support, it is much easier to list those that it does not. Unsupported features of SQL are shown below.

RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN LEFT OUTER JOIN is implemented, but not RIGHT OUTER JOIN or FULL OUTER JOIN.
Complete ALTER TABLE support Only the RENAME TABLE and ADD COLUMN variants of the ALTER TABLE command are supported. Other kinds of ALTER TABLE operations such as DROP COLUMN, ALTER COLUMN, ADD CONSTRAINT, and so forth are omitted.
Complete trigger support FOR EACH ROW triggers are suppo