SQLite

Foreword

When I first began composing SQLite in late May of 2000, I never imagined that a few years later it would be widely used in consumer electronics devices and in countless programs and that people I barely know would be writing books about it. Like most other open-source software, SQLite grew out of a personal need and was intended primarily for my own use. In January of 2000, I was working with a team from General Dynamics on a software project that was connected to an Informix database. When Informix works, it works well, but we were having problems getting it to start reliably when the host computer was rebooted. We substituted PostgreSQL for Informix on our development systems, but even that database was a hassle to administer. While ...