Yes, the root cause is the same. The Applications are "buggered up". SQLite merely stores and retrieves data. Sort of like a secretary and that secretarys' filing cabinets. The secretary is not, however, responsible for the contents of the files stored and retrieved. If the boss requests a bunch of files to make a picture board and it looks like shit, that is not the fault of the secretary. It is the fault of whomever prepared the contents of the files for the secretary to store in the first place or who processed the files after the secretary retrieved them. The Application diddles the data for storage and then diddles it again for display. It is the diddling (in the Application) that is buggered up.