Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn step by step on how to download and use the SQLite tools to your computer.

The downloaded file is in the ZIP format and its size is quite small. Run SQLite tools. Installing SQLite is simple and straightforward. First, create a new folder e.g., C:sqlite. Second, extract the content of the file that you downloaded in the previous section to the C:sqlite folder. You should see three programs in the C:sqlite folder as shown below.
SQLite is used by Mac OS X software such as NetNewsWire and SpamSieve. When you download SQLite and build it on a stock Mac OS X system, the sqlite tool has a very primitive command-line editing.

Download Base - SQLite Editor for macOS 10.14 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎Base is an application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files. It's a proper Mac OS X application.

Download SQLite tools

To download SQLite, you open the download page of the SQlite official website.

First, go to the https://www.sqlite.org website.
Second, open the download page https://www.sqlite.org/download.html

SQLite provides various tools for working across platforms e.g., Windows, Linux, and Mac. You need to select an appropriate version to download.

For example, to work with SQLite on Windows, you download the command-line shell program as shown in the screenshot below.

The downloaded file is in the ZIP format and its size is quite small.

Run SQLite tools

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Installing SQLite is simple and straightforward.

First, create a new folder e.g., C:sqlite.
Second, extract the content of the file that you downloaded in the previous section to the C:sqlite folder. You should see three programs in the C:sqlite folder as shown below:

First, open the command line window:

and navigate to the C:sqlite folder.

Second, type sqlite3 and press enter, you should see the following output:

Third, you can type the .help command from the sqlite> prompt to see all available commands in sqlite3.

Fourth, to quit the sqlite>, you use .quit command as follows:

Install SQLite GUI tool

The sqlite3 shell is excellent…

However, sometimes, you may want to work with the SQLite databases using an intuitive GUI tool.

There are many GUI tools for managing SQLite databases available ranging from freeware to commercial licenses.

SQLiteStudio

The SQLiteStudio tool is a free GUI tool for managing SQLite databases. It is free, portable, intuitive, and cross-platform. SQLite tool also provides some of the most important features to work with SQLite databases such as importing, exporting data in various formats including CSV, XML, and JSON.

You can download the SQLiteStudio installer or its portable version by visiting the download page. Then, you can extract (or install) the download file to a folder e.g., C:sqlitegui and launch it.

The following picture illustrates how to launch the SQLiteStudio:

Other SQLite GUI tools

Besides the SQLite Studio, you can use the following free SQLite GUI tools:

DBeaver is another free multi-platform database tool. It supports all popular major relational database systems MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase.. including SQLite.
DB Browser for SQLite – is an open-source tool to manage database files compatible with SQLite.

In this tutorial, you have learned how to download and install SQLite tools on your computer. Now, you should be ready to work with SQLite. If you have any issues with these above steps, feel free to send us an email to get help.

I’m a Mac user and I do not own a Windows computer, so I can’t write the instructions for Windows. Google “how to install sqlite on windows” for specific instructions. Same goes for Linux.

On macOS, you don’t need to do anything to install sqlite. It’s preinstalled in all modern versions of macOS.

All you need to do is to open a terminal and run the

command.

Press ctrl-C 2 times to exit the SQLite executable.

This is pretty cool!

My macOS with Mojave comes with SQLite 3.24, and the latest version (at the time of writing) is SQLite 3.30. You can upgrade SQLite using Homebrew, but for the sake of simplicity, I’m not going to cover this.

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A great software we can use to interact with a SQLite database is TablePlus. It comes with a free trial that’s perfect for our usage, because it’s not time-based but rather it limits the amount of concurrent connections you can make to the database.

Download it from https://tableplus.com. I know there are macOS, Windows and Linux versions.

You create a new connection, choosing SQLite:

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You select a name, and type a database path. I choose test.db, in the /Users/flaviocopes/ folder:

SQLite is pretty cool because the database is contained in a file, which you can put pretty much everywhere you want. This is radically different from PostgreSQL, and MySQL and other big DBMS.

Pressing Connect, the connection was successfully created:

and I can see the file created in that folder, with zero KB of size:

That’s it.

I’m going to make more tutorials on how to use this SQLite database, soon.

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