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SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases(sqlitestudio.pl)
161 points by thunderbong 12 hours ago | 44 comments
googie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Author here. I'm surprised and honored to have my pet project here ;) As mentioned in another comment, I'm currently in the process of bugfixing/polishing 3.4.x branch. Then I will focus more on 3.5.0, which will bring many big features. One of them being ERD (read & write).

tolai 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

SQLiteStudio is fantastic, I've been using it on and off for a few years already and it's saved my ass so many times. Once, we were doing many many meetings discussing a potential implementation for a sales incentive scheme and it was very difficult to get everyone onboard. Fed up with this I built a demo database in sqlite using a portable SQLiteStudio instance and prepared a bunch of queries. This "reference implementation" made it possible to get everyone aligned in record time !! This would not have been possible at all with the "frictions" of a convential RDBMS. Also, analyzing and cleaning up client data during project UATs is so damn convenient in SQLiteStudio. Thanks !!!!

forinti an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a great tool. My use-case is a bit unusual: I decommissioned an Oracle Portal instance and decided to keep a copy of the tables in SQLite so that I can recover files people may later remember they need. It's much easier than maintaining an Oracle instance.

It's a nice feature of SQLiteStudio that you can click on a blob and see the image, if it's an image file.

muhehe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you! This is great software. I don't use it much (and recently almost not at all), but I still love. It's fast, it's easy to use. I just checked your website and it looks there are tons of features I didn't know about :). Thanks again.

bpiroman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

love it! thank you so much!!

SonOfLilit 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This week I needed to quickly have a peek at what was saved in a testing database, and I wondered "does VisiData support this?" and sure enough

    vd test.sqlite3
gave me a list of tables, right there in the terminal, and choosing a table with arrows and Return showed me the table data in a grid view with all of vd's filtering and sorting commands right there.
simonw 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Screenshots here: https://sqlitestudio.pl/gallery/

It's built in C++ and Qt, is GPL licensed, looks like it's been in development for just under ten years. https://github.com/pawelsalawa/sqlitestudio

googie 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Actually the project is much older. It started in 2007. More details on this can be found at https://sqlitestudio.pl/about/

hysan 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How does this compare with https://sqlitebrowser.org/ ?

hochmartinez 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've used both. Sqlitestudio is far more powerful, intuitive and easy to use. Fast and efficient. Flies even in old PCs. In Linux you won't find It in the repositories. You have to download and run a handy installer.

0points 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's in AUR

knighthack 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's my Swiss knife.

Super handy in a lot of scenarios, and I use it side-by-side with Jetbrains' DataGrip.

PeterStuer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have been using sqlitebrowser as well. Fairly satisfied, except for the poor 'export to csv' that seems to fail on respecting csv separations in some cases. Does SQLiteStudio handle this correctly?

justinclift an hour ago | parent [-]

Do you have the specifics of the failure cases? We (sqlitebrowser.org devs) tend to fix bugs like that when we have a reproducer.

jksmith 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My goto as well.

hochmartinez 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been using It for several years, in Windows and now in Linux. Fast, slick and very powerful. Flies on my humble Atom laptop. By far the best free sqlite manager. Thanks Paweł Salawa for this great piece of software!

xenodium 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This looks great. For Emacs users, v29 introduced sqlite-mode. I've experimented with some convenience extensions which can be handy for quick sqlite views and edits https://lmno.lol/alvaro/sqlite-mode-goodies

hu3 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been using this client lately: https://dbgate.org

Anyone else?

Oxodao 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Just tried it, it might replace DBeaver for me! Vim mode without plugin is amazing. Need a few days to fully try it out

JaggerFoo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Excellent product that behaves as expected and adheres to Sqlite's unique requirements when updating schema objects.

DecoPerson 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Be very careful using this over Samba, even with WAL mode enabled. I corrupted an important testing DB this way. Thankfully .recover came to the rescue and only a small amount of data was lost (but the test team had to wait a couple hours for me to bring the test environment back online).

CaliforniaKarl 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The WAL journal mode does not work over Samba. See the first disadvantage from https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html:

> All processes using a database must be on the same host computer; WAL does not work over a network filesystem. This is because WAL requires all processes to share a small amount of memory and processes on separate host machines obviously cannot share memory with each other.

The presence of the `-shm` file is one of the signs that the database is currently operating in WAL mode, and must only be accessed from the machine hosting the database file.

Looking at the list of journal modes supported (https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode), you should see if the problem happens with the default `DELETE` journal mode.

Also, see https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html#_broken_locking_imp... for warnings about the SQLite that ships with macOS.

Alifatisk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is there a tool that allows multiple people to work in the same sql workspace? I thinking an application like mysql workbench but for collaboration where everyone shares the same editor, terminal and everything else.

That would accelerate the brainstorming a lot when working in a team remotely.

pjturpeau 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very nice "pet" project! I was about to ask what would make it more interesting than HeidiSQL or DB Browser for SQLite and then I remembered those two are crashing on few of my .sqlite files while SQLiteStudio does not!

skc 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Solid tool. But on Windows it has a tendency to freeze and remain unresponsive if you leave it open without using it for an extended period eg overnight.

It's a minor annoyance

googie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Author here. This was never reported. I haven't noticed it for myself either. Feel free to get in touch through the official email (mentioned on the homepage) or through GitHub issues. I'm in the process of polishing 3.4.x branch, eliminating as many bugs as possible, before focusing on 3.5.0.

thunderbong an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've used it for many years. Never faced this problem.

cess11 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Really?

To me that's a major annoyance, an obvious defect in the software. It's like a car going unresponsive from standing still at a red light and needing me to turn it off and waiting for five seconds before I start it again before I can drive away, or having to turn it off when stopping and then starting again when the light changes.

Temporary_31337 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Then report it via the appropriate channels with as much detail as possible and steps to reproduce. It looks like you are complaining without having even used the software.

cess11 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I'm just not going to use the software if I encounter this.

gchamonlive 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

You'll have to stick to pen and paper, although pens stop working if you don't use it for an extended period of time, so I guess it's an obvious defect with the product and you shouldn't use it.

djsnoopy 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What does this have that the SQLite command line program doesn’t? Because every time I try one of these I go back to the cli.

owobeid 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Here's one use case: while I don't use this particular GUI, it really does help when you have some columns containing RTL text such as Arabic and you want to browse through a table. RTL handling in most terminal emulators I've used is really lacking, though I can't blame them.

bilekas 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's actually a really interesting case I had never considered. I actually just took it for granted that RTL in the console was a solved problem

owobeid 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not just in consoles. While RTL is solved for most cases, I generally avoid writing Arabic in code for example (hard-coded strings, regex, etc) and just use Unicode escape sequences. Some issues include ASCII punctuation appearing (visually) in the wrong order and very awkward text selection

hochmartinez 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lots of things! It gives you sqlite superpowers. It makes you more productive and saves you lots if time. You can edit several databases at the same time. And editing them is far easier. For example, it generates and executes the sql code to add new columns for you. You can edit the data of several rows directly on a query response, as if It was a spreadsheet, just by clicking on a column value (or you can use a column value editor). Super handy. You can view and edit blobs. The sql editor has autocompletition and you can execute a statement just by having the cursor on this statement, so you can quickly test multiple independent queries in a single editor window. It shows the execution times, so you can easely compare the speed of several query strategies. You can view the query optimizer info by clicking a button. It supports several scripting lenguajes, and the list goes on and on. Check the features here: https://sqlitestudio.pl/features/

googie 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For example it has context-aware syntax autocompletion, easy D&D for tables between databases, and many more - you can see longer list at https://sqlitestudio.pl/features/

rmbyrro 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A good alternative to the sqlite cli is litecli [1]. I've been a happy user for quite some time.

[1] https://litecli.com

dagw 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Allows people who are not versed in SQL to interact with and edit sqlite files as if it was a spreadsheet (for better or worse)

kyawzazaw 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

UI is quite useful to me

dayeye2006 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe UI

emptiestplace 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed, rip the band-aid off folks. You will be so glad you did.

killingtime74 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I just use Datagrip. Works with SQLite and many more dbs

turblety 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Datagrip is a paid, proprietary and closed source commercial product.