The SQLite interface

SQLite databases can be accessed via the ODBC interface. SQLite is included in the mmodbc module on all platforms that are supported by Xpress. The ODBC driver mmsqlite to access SQLite equally forms part of the distribution, no ODBC setup and no additional installations are required when using this driver. The full connection string to employ in this case has the form 'DRIVER=mmsqlite;READONLY=false;DB=mydatabase.sqlite' (notice that instead of referring to a DSN definition we directly use the built-in ODBC driver). However, it is sufficient to simply state the database filename (and path) if it has one of the extensions sqlite, sqlite3, db, or db3 — Mosel will automatically generate the complete connection string.

Alternatively, if you wish to use a different version of SQLite than the one provided with Mosel, you need to follow the ODBC installation procedure: after downloading an external ODBC driver for SQLite, a DSN must be setup as explained above in Section Setting up ODBC. Assuming that we have called the DSN 'sqlite', this results in a connection string of the form 'DSN=sqlite;DATABASE=mydatabase.sqlite'.

For visualizing and editing SQLite databases, you may choose to install additional software, such as the SQLite Manager plugin for Firefox browsers that can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/sqlite-manager or the DB Browser for SQLite at http://sqlitebrowser.org