How To Install and Use SQLite

SQLite is a free, cross-platform database management system. It is popular for its efficiency and ability to be used with many different programming languages.

In this tutorial you will install SQLite on Ubuntu 20.04. You will then create a database, read data from it, insert items, delete items, and join items from separate tables.

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