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		simonw on Jan 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Untold Story of SQLite (2021) My experience is that it doesn't matter at all, but .db appears to me a lot more common than .sqlite3

ocdtrekkie on Jan 29, 2023 [–]

I tend to use .sqlite so people know what the file is likely to open in. On Windows systems, I've found endless .dat files that could be from any number of database formats.

I've noticed the tendency for .db but I consider it a bad practice, all things considered.

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