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</dl>
</blockquote>

<tcl>
set method_list [lsort {
 authorizer
 backup
 bind_fallback
 busy
 cache
 changes
 close
 collate
 collation_needed
 commit_hook

then the operation is silently disabled.  If the return is "SQLITE_DENY"
then the compilation fails with an error.
</p>

<p>If the argument is an empty string then the authorizer is disabled.
If the argument is omitted, then the current authorizer is returned.</p>
}

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METHOD bind_fallback {

<p>The "bind_fallback" method gives the application control over how to
handle parameter binding when no TCL variable matches the parameter name.

<p>When the <a href="#eval">eval method</a> sees a named SQL
parameter such as "$abc" or ":def" or "@ghi" in an SQL statement, it tries
to look up a TCL variable with the same name, and it binds the value
of that TCL variable to the SQL parameter.  If no such TCL variable exists,
the default behavior is to bind an SQL NULL value to the parameter.  However,
if a bind_fallback proc is specified, then that proc is invoked with the
name of the SQL parameter and the return value from the proc is bound to
the SQL parameter.  Or if the proc returns an error, then the SQL statement
aborts with that error.  If the proc returns with some code other than
TCL_OK or TCL_ERROR, then the SQL parameter is bound to NULL, as it would
be by default.

<p>The "bind_fallback" method has a single optional argument.  If the argument
is an empty string, then the bind_fallback is cancelled and the default behavior
is restored.  If the argument is a non-empty string, then the argument is a
TCL command (usually the name of a proc) to invoke whenever an SQL parameter 
is seen that does not match any TCL variable.  If the "bind_fallback" method 
is given no arguments, then the current bind_fallback command is returned.

<p>As an example, the following setup causes TCL to throw an error if
an SQL statement contains an parameter that does not match any global
TCL variable:

<blockquote><pre><b>
proc bind_error {nm} {
  error "no such variable: $nm"
}
db bind_fallback bind_error
</b></pre></blockquote>
}


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METHOD progress {

<p>This method registers a callback that is invoked periodically during
query processing.  There are two arguments: the number of SQLite virtual
machine opcodes between invocations, and the TCL command to invoke.

sequence.
</p>

<p>For example, the following code implements a collating sequence called
"NOCASE" that sorts in text order without regard to case:
</p>

<blockquote><pre><b>
proc nocase_compare {a b} {
  return &#91;string compare &#91;string tolower $a] &#91;string tolower $b]]

}
db collate NOCASE nocase_compare
</b></pre></blockquote>
}

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METHOD collation_needed {

<p>This method registers a callback routine that is invoked when the SQLite
engine needs a particular collating sequence but does not have that