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We run a Node service and two background workers on one Windows machine with a local SQLite database. Use https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html and https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous to produce a conditional WAL adoption brief and a five-item durability/checkpoint checklist. Explain writer concurrency, long readers, FULL versus NORMAL after power loss, and whether the historical 100 MB transaction warning still applies. Cite the exact evidence; leave unknown workload measurements explicit.

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No supported answer: no source passed the relevance and evidence checks within this run's limits. Web search: 4 queries attempted, 3 succeeded, 1 unavailable. No original public document was successfully read. Recorded SKIP reasons: if you enable WAL mode with sqlite then readers are not blocked by writer so onl... | Hacker News: HN comment thread only asserts 'WAL plus single writer, multiple reader threaded is required' — a secondary restatement, not the primary sqlite.org evidence the brief must cite. The question explicitly requires citing the official WAL doc and synchronous pragma page; this snippet cannot supply exact wording for writer concurrency or long readers, a; SQLite User Forum: Using WAL mode with multiple processes: SQLite forum post restates 'one writer and many readers at the same time; a second writer will have to wait' — useful corroboration for writer concurrency but it is a forum paraphrase, not the canonical wal.html text the brief must cite, and it says nothing about long readers, synchronous FULL/NORMAL, the 100 MB warning, or checkpoints. Lower value; SQLite WAL Internals: Frames, Commits, Concurrency: Third-party explainer covers multiple readers, single writer, snapshot reads and -shm coordination — relevant background for writer concurrency and long readers, but it is not the sqlite.org source the question demands be cited, and it omits synchronous durability and the 100 MB transaction-warning history. Secondary and partly redundant. - free pu. Narrow the question to one concrete decision, supply a relevant original source URL, and inspect the recorded SKIP/read failures. A larger source budget does not resolve a free-source attention gate or extraction limit. Metadata previews are not read evidence. This does not establish that no relevant evidence exists.

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  1. Requested topic (unverified): “What does https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html say about writer concurrency in WAL mode?”

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  2. Requested topic (unverified): “What does https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html say about long-running readers in WAL mode?”

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  3. Requested topic (unverified): “What does https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous say about FULL versus NORMAL durability after power loss?”

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  4. Requested topic (unverified): “Does the historical 100 MB transaction warning still apply according to https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html?”

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  5. Requested topic (unverified): “What conditions determine whether WAL mode should be adopted for a Node service and two background workers on one Windows machine with a local SQLite database?”

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  6. Requested topic (unverified): “What are the five durability/checkpoint checklist items for this setup?”

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  7. Requested topic (unverified): “Which workload measurements are unknown and must remain explicit?”

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What does https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html say about writer concurrency in WAL mode?No inspectable excerpt recorded
What does https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html say about long-running readers in WAL mode?No inspectable excerpt recorded
What does https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous say about FULL versus NORMAL durability after power loss?No inspectable excerpt recorded
Does the historical 100 MB transaction warning still apply according to https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html?No inspectable excerpt recorded
What conditions determine whether WAL mode should be adopted for a Node service and two background workers on one Windows machine with a local SQLite database?No inspectable excerpt recorded
What are the five durability/checkpoint checklist items for this setup?No inspectable excerpt recorded
Which workload measurements are unknown and must remain explicit?No inspectable excerpt recorded
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Breaking down: "We run a Node service and two background workers on one Windows machine with a local SQLite database. Use https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html and https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous to produce a conditional WAL adoption brief and a five-item durability/checkpoint checklist. Explain writer concurrency, long readers, FULL versus NORMAL after power loss, and whether the historical 100 MB transaction warning still applies. Cite the exact evidence; leave unknown workload measurements explicit."

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Identified 7 research target(s) to investigate; these are not established facts

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Deep mode: up to 4 paid/cached/public reads plus one bounded gap-expansion pass when needed.

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Web search: 4/4 planned queries attempted, 3 succeeded, 14 public page previews, 1 unavailable queries; query text bounded at 500 characters. Snippets are discovery only. Public reads spend no USDC; model and service operating costs remain separate.

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Discovered 0 verified creator source(s) and 14 free public reference(s)

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Claim-aware portfolio (exhaustive; bounded selection, not a claim of global optimality) selected 0/0 positive proposal(s): 0 free/cache selections + 0 paid fresh selections, predicting 0/7 claim(s) above the evidence floor with $0.000000/$0.015000 fetch USDC reserved.

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if you enable WAL mode with sqlite then readers are not blocked by writer so onl... | Hacker News$0 · EV 35%

HN comment thread only asserts 'WAL plus single writer, multiple reader threaded is required' — a secondary restatement, not the primary sqlite.org evidence the brief must cite. The question explicitly requires citing the official WAL doc and synchronous pragma page; this snippet cannot supply exact wording for writer concurrency or long readers, and adds no durability/checkpoint detail. Redundant with the primary sources and weaker for citation. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLite User Forum: Using WAL mode with multiple processes$0 · EV 40%

SQLite forum post restates 'one writer and many readers at the same time; a second writer will have to wait' — useful corroboration for writer concurrency but it is a forum paraphrase, not the canonical wal.html text the brief must cite, and it says nothing about long readers, synchronous FULL/NORMAL, the 100 MB warning, or checkpoints. Lower value than reading the two official pages directly. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLite WAL Internals: Frames, Commits, Concurrency$0 · EV 45%

Third-party explainer covers multiple readers, single writer, snapshot reads and -shm coordination — relevant background for writer concurrency and long readers, but it is not the sqlite.org source the question demands be cited, and it omits synchronous durability and the 100 MB transaction-warning history. Secondary and partly redundant. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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Sqlite WAL blocks despite doc sais it doesn't$0 · EV 30%

StackOverflow question about SQLITE_LOCKED despite the WAL concurrency claim touches writer/reader blocking edge cases, but it is a problem report, not authoritative documentation, and gives no synchronous FULL/NORMAL or checkpoint guidance. Not suitable as the cited evidence for the brief. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLite User Forum: Multiple Writers$0 · EV 40%

Forum thread confirms 'readers do use a snapshot; writers block each other' and mentions BEGIN CONCURRENT — relevant to writer concurrency, but it is a discussion of a non-standard branch, not the official WAL doc, and does not address long readers, synchronous durability, the 100 MB warning, or checkpoints. Redundant with the primary pages. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLITE with WAL (multiuser) mode: behavior that disappoints me - Web - Xojo Programming Forum$0 · EV 35%

Xojo forum anecdote claims readers get blocked during a second writer's busy timeout — a real-world caveat but an unverified single-user report, not the sqlite.org documentation the brief must cite, and silent on synchronous, the 100 MB warning, and checkpoints. Too weak and too narrow to justify a read. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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Sqlite wal mode reliable for multiple writers without readers? : r/golang$0 · EV 30%

Reddit thread restates 'there can only be one writer at a time, WAL or not' and suggests a queue — tangential to writer concurrency but a low-quality secondary source with no coverage of long readers, synchronous FULL/NORMAL, the 100 MB transaction warning, or checkpointing. Not citable evidence. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLite's WAL mode is fast fast$0 · EV 30%

YouTube transcript excerpt mentions readers continuing until a checkpoint — loosely relevant to checkpointing, but it is a video transcript, not the official documentation, and gives no synchronous durability or 100 MB warning detail. Insufficient and non-authoritative for the brief. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings - blag$0 · EV 50%

Blog post quotes the synchronous pragma text on FULL vs NORMAL in WAL mode and power-loss durability — topically on point for the FULL/NORMAL claim, but it is a secondary quotation of the pragma page the question already names as the required citation, and it does not cover writer concurrency, long readers, the 100 MB warning, or checkpoints. Reading the official pragma page is strictly better. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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[sqlite] PRAGMA Synchronous safety$0 · EV 40%

Mailing-list thread states synchronous matters only after a power outage and discusses multi-process writers — relevant background for the FULL/NORMAL durability question, but it is an informal list exchange, not the canonical pragma documentation, and omits WAL concurrency, the 100 MB warning, and checkpoint items. Redundant with the official pragma page. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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Not sure what you mean by durability. Sqlite has WAL that ...$0 · EV 35%

HN comment claims default WAL can roll back committed transactions on power failure and that synchronous=FULL trades speed — a one-line secondary assertion about durability, not the official pragma text, and silent on writer concurrency, long readers, the 100 MB warning, and checkpoints. Too thin to cite. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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When does sqlite synchronous "NORMAL" sync?$0 · EV 35%

Reddit question quotes the synchronous=NORMAL 'still sync at the most critical moments' line — relevant to the FULL/NORMAL distinction, but it is a forum question quoting the same official pragma page the brief must cite, with no added analysis of power-loss durability, WAL concurrency, or checkpoints. Redundant. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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sqlite - SQLite3 pragma synchronous not persistent$0 · EV 30%

StackOverflow question about synchronous not persisting in WAL mode touches pragma behavior, but it is a troubleshooting Q&A, not authoritative documentation, and does not address the FULL vs NORMAL power-loss semantics, writer concurrency, long readers, the 100 MB warning, or checkpoints. Not useful as cited evidence. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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Understanding SQLite PRAGMA (And How better-sqlite3 Makes It Nicer) - DEV Community$0 · EV 30%

DEV article shows PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL and synchronous=NORMAL examples in a better-sqlite3 context — mildly relevant to the Node service setup, but it is a general pragma primer with no WAL concurrency, long-reader, power-loss durability, 100 MB warning, or checkpoint content. Too shallow and non-authoritative. - free public original-page READ selection (not a cache hit); no purchase or creator reward.

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