For now, let's proceed to the next chapter. You can perform restoration from the generated testDB.sql in a simple way as follows −Īt this moment your database is empty, so you can try above two procedures once you have few tables and data in your database.

The above command will convert the entire contents of testDB.db database into SQLite statements and dump it into ASCII text file testDB.sql. dump dot command to export complete database in a text file using the following SQLite command at the command prompt. quit command to come out of the sqlite prompt as follows − Once a database is created, you can verify it in the list of databases using the following SQLite. If you have noticed while creating database, sqlite3 command will provide a sqlite> prompt after creating a database file successfully. SQLite is the most widely deployed database in the world with more applications than we can count. The code for SQLite is in the public domain and is thus free for use for any purpose, commercial or private. This file will be used as database by SQLite engine. SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. The above command will create a file testDB.db in the current directory. If you want to create a new database, then SQLITE3 statement would be as follows −Įnter SQL statements terminated with a ' ' Syntaxįollowing is the basic syntax of sqlite3 command to create a database: −Īlways, database name should be unique within the RDBMS. You do not need to have any special privilege to create a database. In SQLite, sqlite3 command is used to create a new SQLite database.

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