As you may see from the picture below there are few files:
.exe file which is reading data.edb file
sqlite3.dll which is obviously being used to read data.edb
data.edb contains all the data
Obviously SQLIte3 is being used to read the database, but I cannot load data.edb manually. Does anyone have any idea how to do it?
When I use the .read FILENAME command in sqlite it will read commands from a .sql file no problem
but when that file contains further .read FILENAME commands sqlite will not read those files.
It seems like the .read FILENAME command can only be used in the command line.
So Am I meant to place all my table creation commands in the one file?
if so what sort of craziness is that?
PS I am using command line SQLite for purposes of getting my database schema sorted before using sqlite with a programming language.
Yes, dot-commands like .read are part of the sqlite3 shell and not a feature of SQL as recognized by sqlite. The .read command just executes the SQL in the file, it does not execute it as a sqlite3 command shell file.
So Am I meant to place all my table creation commands in the one file?
That seems like a reasonable thing to do, especially since later at this point:
PS I am using command line SQLite for purposes of getting my database schema sorted before using sqlite with a programming language.
... you won't have sqlite3 shell available at all and are restricted to SQL only.
I'm trying to open a .sqlite file on Windows, but I don't know how to. Do you know a good program for it?
It contains data for statistical analysis, but I prefer having a .txt file.
I also have a .spatialite file. Can you help me?
If you just want to see what's in the database without installing anything extra, you might already have SQLite CLI on your system. To check, open a command prompt and try:
sqlite3 database.sqlite
Replace database.sqlite with your database file. Then, if the database is small enough, you can view the entire contents with:
sqlite> .dump
Or you can list the tables:
sqlite> .tables
Regular SQL works here as well:
sqlite> select * from some_table;
Replace some_table as appropriate.
SQLite is database engine, .sqlite or .db should be a database. If you don't need to program anything, you can use a GUI like sqlitebrowser or anything like that to view the database contents.
Website: http://sqlitebrowser.org/
Project: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser
There is also spatialite, https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite_gui/index
My favorite:
https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/
No installation needed. Just drop the file.
I would suggest using R and the package RSQLite
#install.packages("RSQLite") #perhaps needed
library("RSQLite")
# connect to the sqlite file
sqlite <- dbDriver("SQLite")
exampledb <- dbConnect(sqlite,"database.sqlite")
dbListTables(exampledb)
Very basic question, having a hard time finding an explanation online.
I have a file code.sql that can be run on two different databases, a.db3 and b.db3. I used sqlite a.db3 to open the database in sqlite3. How do I run code.sql on it?
Use the .read code.sql command, or call sqlite3 with the file as input: sqlite3 a.db3 < code.sql.
I am guessing that you are trying to use the sqlite3 command line tool that you can dowload from the sqlite.org website.
I recomend that you use, instead, sqlitestudio http://sqlitestudio.one.pl
This has a feature to execute SQL from a file on a database:
Use DB Browser for SQLite is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.
You can download the DB Browser at SQLite https://sqlitebrowser.org/
Where is the SQLite database stored i.e. directory path on windows 7 when created ?
A SQLite database is a regular file. It is created in your script current directory.
.databases
If you run this command inside SQLite
.databases
it lists the path of all currently connected databases. Sample output:
seq name file
--- --------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
0 main /home/me/a.db
There is no "standard place" for a sqlite database. The file's location is specified to the library, and may be in your home directory, in the invoking program's folder, or any other place.
If it helps, sqlite databases are, by convention, named with a .db file extension.
If you are running Rails (its the default db in Rails) check the {RAILS_ROOT}/config/database.yml file and you will see something like:
database: db/development.sqlite3
This means that it will be in the {RAILS_ROOT}/db directory.
When you call sqlite3_open() you specify the filepath the database is opened from/saved to, if it is not an absolute path it is specified relative to your current working directory.
It depends on how you initialized the database. If you used the command line shell for SQLite (e.g. sqlite3 ex1) to create the database, it'll be a path from the root of your local machine. If you used a Python script to create the database, it'll be a path from your project.
To check the former, run the command line shell:
sqlite3
sqlite> .databases
To check the path in your project, you can print the path in the connection. For example:
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
DATABASE = 'db'
def get_db_connection():
print(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, DATABASE, "database.db"))
conn = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, DATABASE, "database.db"))
conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
return conn
In my case I think it was an access issue. I saved the SQLite files to "C:/Program Files (x86)/sqlite". I CD'd there, ran sqlite3, and created a database called test.db:
As you can see, I ran .database, which told me the .db file was created in the same directory, so I went to confirm in File Explorer, and it wasn't there:
Curiously the database was working correctly in spite of this.
It was only through trial-and-error that I discovered that I could save in some locations, but not others. It appears to me that SQLite can't save to locations that require elevation. In my case, moving from Program Files to My Documents made the issue go away.
I find it quite irritating that SQLite doesn't just tell me "access denied" instead of trying to be clever and saving to some location that I can't even find.
In Windows machines (Windows 2010), by default, the new SQLite database files will be stored in the same folder where Sqlite3.EXE application is stored in your machine. However , we can create a new folder in Windows and within sqlite> prompt, you may use the .cd to change to the new working directory.
It is a good idea to give a .db file extension to the new database files that you create (even though it is not mandatory to have any file extension)
The SQLite command, .databases will show the default database "main" or currently created or currently opened database or all "attached" database files with file path. The .attach is useful to attach more than one database file to the current connection when we want to work with tables belonging to different databases.
Regards,
Biju Joseph N.,
Houston TX, USA (January 12, 2023)
the database path will be displayed, when using .databases
SQLite is created in your python directory where you installed the python.
SQLit Database is simply a file where your local data is stored on your local machine
In Windows 10 if in the prompt command the path where you start sqlite is
C:\users\USER_NAME
You can find it in the user home folder.
The .db file is stored where you start the sqlite command.
I hope this solve the issue