How to install SQLite on Windows?

Step 1:

Download SQLite tools from the page of SQLite 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.

Step 2:

Run SQLite tools

Create a new folder e.g., C:\sqlite.

Extract the content of the file that you downloaded in the previous section to the C:\sqlite folder.

Step 2:

Open the command line window:

Go to the C:\sqlite folder.

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

For the help type the .help command from the sqlite> prompt to see all available commands in sqlite3.

Type .quit to quit the sqlite

Step 3:

Install SQLite GUI tool

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

1-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.

Go to https://sqlitestudio.pl to download SQLiteStudio, Then you can extract (or install) the download file to a folder e.g., C:\sqlite\gui\ and launch it.

Choose the language and press OK, you should see the following picture

Other 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.

Now, you should be ready to work with SQLite