sqlite3 Cheat Sheet

by Richard Holloway (richardjh) via cheatography.com/478/cs/370/

sqlite3 Meta Commands sqlite3 Meta Commands contd. sqlite3 Options

.backup ?DB? FILE .schema ?TABLE? -init file

Backup DB (default "main") to FILE Show the CREATE statements Read and execute commands from file , which can

.bail ON|OFF .separator STRING contain a mix of SQL statements and meta-comm

Stop after hitting an error. Default OFF Change separator used by output mode and ands.

.databases .import -echo

List names and files of attached databases .show Print commands before execution.

.dump ?TABLE? ... Show the current values for various settings -[no]header
Turn headers on or off.
Dump the database in an SQL text format. .stats ON|OFF

.echo ON|OFF Turn stats on or off -bail

Turn command echo on or off .tables ?TABLE? Stop after hitting an error.

List names of tables -interactive

.exit
Exit this program .timeout MS Force interactive I/O .

.explain ?ON|OFF? Try opening locked tables for MS milliseconds -batch

Force batch I/O .
Turn output mode suitable for EXPLAIN on or off. .width NUM1 NUM2 ...

.header(s) ON|OFF Set column widths for "column" mode -column

Turn display of headers on or off .timer ON|OFF Query results will be displayed in a table like form,
using whitespace characters to separate the
.help Turn the CPU timer measurement on or off
columns and align the output.
Shows this information.
sqlite3 See Also -csv
.import FILE TABLE
Set output mode to CSV (comma separated
Import data from FILE into TABLE http://www.sqlite.org/
values).
.indices ?TABLE? The sqlite3-doc package.
-html
Show names of all indices
Query results will be output as simple HTML tables.
.load FILE ?ENTRY?
-line
Load an extension library
Query results will be displayed with one value per
.log FILE|off line, rows separated by a blank line. Designed to
Turn logging on or off. FILE can be stderr/stdout be easily parsed by scripts or other programs

.mode MODE ?TABLE? -list

Set output mode where MODE is one of: csv, Query results will be displayed with the separator (|,
column, html, insert, line, list, tabs, tcl by default) character between each field value. The
.nullvalue STRING default.
Print STRING in place of NULL values -separator separator
.output FILENAME Set output field separator. Default is '|'.

Send output to FILENAME -stats

.output stdout Print memory stats before each finalize.

Send output to the screen -nullvalue string

.prompt MAIN CONTINUE Set string used to represent NULL values. Default
Replace the standard prompts is '' (empty string).

.quit -version
Exit this program Show SQLite version.

.read FILENAME -vfs name

Execute SQL in FILENAME Use name as the default VFS .

.restore ?DB? FILE -help

Restore content of DB (default "main") from FILE Show help on options and exit.

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