HiLo Id generation for Sqlite

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, sqlite
Domain
database

Research direction

Start by comparing the requested SQLite HiLo behavior with the existing SQL Server HiLo strategy and SQLite's lack of sequences. Determine how a table-backed HiLo value store would integrate with EF Core, then verify that UseHiLo works for SQLite and supports unit tests in a near-production configuration.

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Description

area-sqlite customer-reported

I'm working on a project which I try to keep Db-Agnostic as much as possible. For practical reasons, my first line of unit testing is Sqlite only. I need to use HiLo for performance reasons, I'm using it for SQL sever, but because there is no HiLo strategy for sqlite, I'm running my unit tests with Identity strategy.

It would be great if we can UseHiLo for sqlite, which would let us run the unit tests in a near-production situation.

If there is no Sequence in Sqlite, why not to use just a simple Table to store the HiLo values?

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