SQLite-form of the CCDB database

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The CCDB can be accessed as an SQLite file. Full history and read/write access is supported. However note that there is no current automatic mechanism for backporting changes from a modified SQLite database to the main MySQL database.

By its nature SQLite requires no network connection and no additional software is required.

Legal forms of the CCDB_CONNECTION URL are:

sqlite:///relative/path/to/file.db
sqlite:////absolute/path/to/file.db

Note that three /'s indicate a relative path, four /'s an absolute path.

For example, sqlite database is /home/user/ccdb.sqlite then to use it with the CCDB software,

setenv CCDB_CONNECTION sqlite:////home/user/ccdb.sqlite

or supply the URL directly to CCDB (interactive version shown),

 ccdb -i -c sqlite:////home/user/ccdb.sqlite

To use it with JANA,

setenv JANA_CALIB_URL sqlite:////home/user/ccdb.sqlite

An SQLite database is created at midnight. The latest version is available for download here . Older versions of the CCDB can be found at JLab in /group/halld/Software/calib/ccdb_sqlite .