Question

I’ve just started using SQLite, following the tutorials here and I’m using this on windows. I’ve got sqlite3.exe extracted to a folder on my desktop, and am running the following line in a command prompt to test it:

sqlite3 test.db

which the official documentation claims should create a file called test.db to work with. However, it doesn’t appear to be doing anything, no files are created and it gives no errors or success messages, just another sqlite> prompt. Am I missing something to get this working on windows 7? Thanks.

Answer 1

If the database file does not exist, SQLite starts with an empty database.

The file itself will not be created until you actually write to the database.
Try creating something:

CREATE TABLE Test(some stuff);