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How to create an empty SQLite database

I was looking for how to create an SQLite database to use with Prisma, when I found you can initialize an empty SQLite database just by creating an empty file.

I was overcomplicating it, but with SQLite initializing a new database is very very simple

For example you can use touch from the command line to create a SQLite database named storage.db:

$ touch storage.db

The same approach can be taken when duplicating a database with all its tables, or backing it up. You just copy the file.


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