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SQLite Database Browser
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This is a fork from the SF project which seems to be stagnant.
Screenshot
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.. image:: https://github.com/rp-/sqlitebrowser/raw/master/images/sqlitebrowser.png
:height: 641px
:width: 725px
:scale: 100%
:alt: SQLiteBrowser Screenshot
:align: center
Old Project
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- http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/
What it is
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(taken from the website linked to above; it's still true - now even more)
SQLite Database Browser is a freeware, open source visual tool used to create,
design and edit database files compatible with SQLite. It is meant to be used
for users and developers that want to create databases, edit and search data
using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, without the need to learn
complicated SQL commands.
What's been done since then
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- Qt3Support was removed
- Recent files menu added
- Improved UI, making it more modern, replacing some dialogs etc.
- Syntax highlighting for SQL code
- Cleaned up the code, reducing the SLOC quite a bit
- Added basic support for triggers and views
- Added pragma editing
- Added BLOB support
- Added a new filter row for searching
- Improved performance when opening large tables
- Extended the SQL tab
- Added SQLite extension support
- Fixed a ton of bugs
- Probably more
All in all a fair amount of the code has been rewritten in order to regain
maintainability. Based on this quite a few bugs could be fixed and some
features added.
What's still to do
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- Even more code cleanup
- Further improvement of the UI, adding more features and making it easier to
use
- Feel free to add more issues at
https://github.com/rp-/sqlitebrowser/issues
Windows binaries
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Windows binaries can be downloaded from here:
https://github.com/rp-/sqlitebrowser/releases
MacOS X
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SQLite Database Browser works pretty well on MacOS X.
- OSX 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) are tested and known to work
Building on OSX is simple, but depends on SQLite and Qt to be installed
using Homebrew first::
$ brew install sqlite --with-functions
$ brew install qt --with-qt3support
Then it's just a matter of::
$ git clone https://github.com/rp-/sqlitebrowser.git
$ cd sqlitebrowser
$ qmake
$ make
$ mv src/sqlitebrowser.app /Applications/
An icon for "sqlitebrowser" should now be in your main OSX Applications
list, ready to launch.