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This Library Carpentry lesson introduces librarians to relational database management system using SQLite. At the conclusion of the lesson you will: understand what SQLite does; use SQLite to summarise and link databases.

Prerequisites

You will need to install Firefox and SQLite to complete this lesson. {: .prereq}

Linux and Mac OS x

SQLite command line tools come preinstalled on Linux and Mac OS x.

In order to check they are available type sqlite3 at the terminal command line. To exit type .exit.

Windows

On Windows download the Windows Installer Copy the file to a directory and open the directory using the windows command line. Type sqlite3.

For a more detailed explanation see this tutorial.