How to create a SQLite database

SQLite database FAQ: How do I create a SQLite database?

Creating a new database in SQLite is so easy, it's amazing. Once you have SQLite installed and your PATH set up properly, from your Unix or DOS shell, just issue this SQLite command:

$ sqlite3 database-name

That's all you have to do to create a SQLite database.

A complete SQLite create database example

As a concrete example of how to create a SQLite database, if I want to create a new SQLite database named blog.db, I'd create it like this:

$ sqlite3 blog.db

SQLite version 3.4.0
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> 

As you can see, SQLite creates my database, and logs me into the new database at the same time. I can now issue whatever SQLite commands I want, presumably some "create table" commands to create new tables in my new SQLite database.

Note that this SQLite "create database" command creates a new file in my local directory, as I can see with the Unix ls command:

$ ls -al

drwxr-xr-x  8 al  al      272 Jun 24 13:21 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 al  al      238 Jun 24 09:20 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 al  al        0 Jun 24 13:21 blog.db