Question

I use Netbeans IDE (6.5) and I have a SQLite 2.x database. I installed a JDBC SQLite driver from zentus.com and added a new driver in Nebeans services panel. Then tried to connect to my database file from Services > Databases using this URL for my database:

jdbc:sqlite:/home/farzad/netbeans/myproject/mydb.sqlite

but it fails to connect. I get this exception:

org.netbeans.modules.db.dataview.meta.DBException: Unable to Connect to database : DatabaseConnection[name='jdbc:sqlite://home/farzad/netbeans/myproject/mydb.sqlite [ on session]']     at org.netbeans.modules.db.dataview.output.SQLExecutionHelper.initialDataLoad(SQLExecutionHelper.java:103)     at org.netbeans.modules.db.dataview.output.DataView.create(DataView.java:101)     at org.netbeans.modules.db.dataview.api.DataView.create(DataView.java:71)     at org.netbeans.modules.db.sql.execute.SQLExecuteHelper.execute(SQLExecuteHelper.java:105)     at org.netbeans.modules.db.sql.loader.SQLEditorSupport$SQLExecutor.run(SQLEditorSupport.java:480)     at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:572) [catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:997) 

What should I do? 🙁

Answer 1

The current version of Zentus SQLiteJDBC is v053, based on SQLite 3.6.1. It will not open a 2.x SQLite database. Perhaps you can use SQLite 2.x command line tool to .dump your database, and the Sqlite3 command line tool to .load it. The use Zentus SQLiteJDBC to access the new SQLite 3.x database.

Alternatively, use a JDBC driver that supports SQLite 2 such as this one.