I’ve been building some apps in Django lately. The apps are fairly small and Django comes with what is pretty much out of the box support for SQLite. While I love the ORM built in data management in Django, during development I often find myself needing to visually view the contents in my database, and if necessary quickly make updates.

So I started looking around and found a pretty cool free app called SQLite Database Browser. While it’s got a few bugs, I really admire the simplicity of the application. When it really comes down to it, I want to be able to view the data cleanly and quickly. Sometimes I will want to update, delete, or insert data. And the very few times that I would want to perform DBA tasks, I’m going to handle that via other means anyways. I found that viewing data is quick and simple. Setup is also very simple. If working locally, just open your db file in your project.

The one bug I found that is pretty annoying concerns creating records. If the table contains fields that are not nullable it becomes impossible to perform inserts via the GUI interface. This pretty much means that you can never really create anything. It appears that in the preferences you can assign a default for non-nullable value that will allow record creation. Only problem is that this preference doesn’t seem to work. I set the preference, close the dialog, reopen the dialog and the preferences are no longer set. Doesn’t seem to be saving or something. Overall, works very well with SQLite databases.