The following table lists the run-time limit constants:
| Constant | Meaning |
| LIMIT_LENGTH | The maximum size of any string or BLOB or table row, in bytes. |
| LIMIT_SQL_LENGTH | The maximum length of an SQL statement, in bytes. |
| LIMIT_COLUMN | The maximum number of columns in a table definition or in the result set of a SELECT or the maximum number of columns in an index or in an ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause. |
| LIMIT_EXPR_DEPTH | The maximum depth of the parse tree on any expression. |
| LIMIT_COMPOUND_SELECT | The maximum number of terms in a compound SELECT statement. |
| LIMIT_VDBE_OP | The maximum number of instructions in a virtual machine program used to implement an SQL statement. This limit is not currently enforced, though that might be added in some future release of SQLite. |
| LIMIT_FUNCTION_ARG | The maximum number of arguments on a function. |
| LIMIT_ATTACHED | The maximum number of attached databases. |
| LIMIT_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH | The maximum length of the pattern argument to the LIKE or GLOB operators. |
| LIMIT_VARIABLE_NUMBER | The maximum index number of any parameter in an SQL statement. |
| LIMIT_TRIGGER_DEPTH | The maximum depth of recursion for triggers. |