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What is the difference between a *.sqlite and a *.db file?
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You can open a SQLITE file using SQLite (cross-platform) or SQLite Database Browser (cross-platform). Note that if your SQLITE file is encrypted, you may have to enter the password used to encrypt the file. If you do not know the password, you likely will not be able to open the file.
. db files are standalone files, which means they don't need server to work, which also means you can't open it with SQL Server 2008.
SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. The sqlite3 has no synonyms but sqlite has sqlitedatabase as a solitary synonym. Normally version tags are used for questions about features specific for that version.
You can name your SQLite database whatever you want. The content is not determined by the file ending but by a sequence of bytes which start every SQLite (3) file:
0x53 0x51 0x4c 0x69 0x74 0x65 0x20 0x66 0x6f 0x72 0x6d 0x61 0x74 0x20 0x33 0x00 which is ASCII for:
SQLite format 3In other words, it could be the same database content. There is no difference, as long as the creator did not put other bytes in it.
If you want to see if it is a SQLite 3 database, open the file in a hexeditor and look for the byte above or simply open it with the SQLite driver.
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