Acknowledgments

What I love most about working with databases is putting the pieces of the puzzle together – what a friend of mine used to call “making order out of chaos.” When it comes to thinking about SQLite, there are many pieces to put together – everything from the first work on relational databases back in the 1960s to the idea of lightweight code libraries that can fit appropriately onto heavy-duty computers, as well as small battery-powered mobile phones and autonomous satellites designed to explore other worlds far from the relative safety of their home planet.

This book has been made possible, first and foremost, by D. Richard Hipp who began (and continues) the SQLite project starting in 2000. The many people who have added and tested code are too many to thank, but you know who you are.

Closer to home, Jeff Pepper at Apress has been great to work with (again), as has Mark Powers. Together with Carole Jelen at Waterside Productions, they have all made it possible to provide this basic introduction to SQLite.