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I’ve been playing around with SQLite on the command line (cmd that is) a bit. I immediately started wondering if it would be possible to combine this portable SQL engine with PowerShell, but I couldn’t find any working samples on the internet.

After some more research I discovered the SQLite ADO.net 2.0 Provider but I couldn’t get it to work immediately.

It took me a couple of days to find the blog post Database Queries with Windows Powershell. (This blog seems to have moved recently as most of the hyperlinks/search results are still referring to Typepad). The post is nicely commented, so I could rather easily translate the MySQL to SQLite statements with some assistance from the included help file.

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("D:\DATA\Tools\System.Data.SQLite.dll")

$cn = New-Object -TypeName System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteConnection
$cn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=D:\DATA\Tools\koen.sqlite"
$cn.Open()

$cm = New-Object -TypeName System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand
$sql = "SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM tblKoen"
$cm.Connection = $cn
$cm.CommandText = $sql
$dr = $cm.ExecuteReader()

while ($dr.Read())
{
    write-host $dr.GetString(0) " " $dr.GetString(1)
}

$cn.Close()

Some more interesting links I came across:

• Learn SQL
• SQLite ODBC driver
• SQLite Tutorial