SQLite In 5 Minutes Or Less

Below is a simple C program that demonstrates how to use the C/C++ interface to SQLite. The name of a database is given by the first argument and the second argument is one or more SQL statements to execute against the database. The function calls to pay attention to here are the call to sqlite3_open() on line 22 which opens the database, sqlite3_exec() on line 28 that executes SQL commands against the database, and sqlite3_close() on line 33 that closes the database connection.

01  #include <stdio.h>
02  #include <sqlite3.h>
03  
04  static int callback(void *NotUsed, int argc, char **argv, char **azColName){
05    int i;
06    for(i=0; i<argc; i++){
07      printf("%s = %s\n", azColName[i], argv[i] ? argv[i] : "NULL");
08    }
09    printf("\n");
10    return 0;
11  }
12  
13  int main(int argc, char **argv){
14    sqlite3 *db;
15    char *zErrMsg = 0;
16    int rc;
17  
18    if( argc!=3 ){
19      fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s DATABASE SQL-STATEMENT\n", argv[0]);
20      return(1);
21    }
22    rc = sqlite3_open(argv[1], &db;);
23    if( rc ){
24      fprintf(stderr, "Can't open database: %s\n", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
25      sqlite3_close(db);
26      return(1);
27    }
28    rc = sqlite3_exec(db, argv[2], callback, 0, &zErrMsg;);
29    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
30      fprintf(stderr, "SQL error: %s\n", zErrMsg);
31      sqlite3_free(zErrMsg);
32    }
33    sqlite3_close(db);
34    return 0;
35  }

See the How To Compile SQLite document for instructions and hints on how to compile the program shown above.