How To Download Sqlite On Mac

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

Download SQLite tools

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

  1. First, go to the https://www.sqlite.org website.
  2. 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

Installing SQLite is simple and straightforward.

  1. First, create a new folder e.g., C:sqlite.
  2. 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:

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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.

Summary: in this tutorial, we will show you how to download SQLite JDBC Driver and connect to the SQLite database via JDBC.

Download SQLite JDBC Driver

To download the latest version of SQLite JDBC Driver, you go to the download page. You should download the latest version of the driver. At the time of this writing, the latest version is sqlite-jdbc-3.27.2.1.jar.

The JAR file includes both Java class files and SQLite binaries for Mac OX S, Linux, and Windows, Both 32-bit and 64-bit.

SQLite connection strings

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The SQLite JDBC driver allows you to load an SQLite database from the file system using the following connection string:

The sqlite_data_file_path is the path to the SQLite database file, which is either relative or absolute path as follows:

Or

To connect to an in-memory database, you use the following connection string:

Connect to an SQLite database via JDBC

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Step 1

Create a new directory called java under c:sqlite

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Step 2

Inside the java folder create a new folder called connect.

Step 3

Copy the jar file sqlite-jdbc-3.27.2.1.jar to the c:sqliteconnect folder.

Step 4

Create a new subfolder called net inside c:sqliteconnect and another subfolder called sqlitetutorial inside the net folder.

Step 5

Create a new file named Connect.java in the sqlitetutorial folder with the following contents. The program will connect to the chinook.db database located in the c:sqlitedb folder.

Note that you should have the chinook.db file downloaded and copied to the C:/sqlite/db/ folder.

Step 6

Launch the command line window and navigate to the sqlitetutorial subfolder created above using the following command:

Step 7

Compile the Connect.java file using the following command:

You will see a new class file generated:

Note that your JDK must be on the PATH, otherwise you will get an error.

Step 8

Change the current directory to the connect directory:

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Step 9

Run the net.sqlitetutorial.Connect class using the following command:

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Here is the output:

It works as expected.

Troubleshooting

If you receive the following message, you should have missed step 8:

How the program works

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In the connect() method:

First, declare a variable that holds a connecting string to the sqlite database c:sqlitedbchinook.db

Next, use the DriverManager class to get a database connection based on the connection string.

Then, trap any SQLException in the try catch block and display the error message.

After that, close the database connection in the finally block.

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Finally, call the connect() method in the main() method of the Connect class.

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In this tutorial, you have learned step by step how to use the SQLite JDBC driver to connect to an SQLite database from a Java program.