I also should mention that before anyone harps about DB3 being reserved for DBaseIII, *.SQL appears to be a common thing for not only Structured Query Language, but also "Squish message base lastread pointers" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_list_of_filename_extensions_%28S%E2%80%93Z%29
There are many extensions of the same .. err.. name(?)...value(?)..structure(?) that are completely different things. Look at .DAT files. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontiac76 at gmail.com> wrote: > That is the default extension for DBaseIII, but I've not heard any windows > or linux or mac system of the past 10 years have anything to do with a > DBaseIII files. There may be edge cases for old accounting applications, > but it is such old technology, I do doubt it is in use for anything of new > importance in a business situation. > > Anything I code with SQLite I do use DB3 as the file extension, simply > because it associates that it is a database file and that it is for SQLite > 3. Just personal convention. I typically mentally reserve *.SQL as text > files, and have my compiler build resource files based on the contents of > those text files. > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Drago, William @ CSG - NARDA-MITEQ < > William.Drago at l-3com.com> wrote: > >> Why do people use .db3 for sqlite database files? In my experience .db3 >> is the file extension for dBase III database files. >> >> -- >> Bill Drago >> Staff Engineer >> L3 Narda-MITEQ >> 435 Moreland Road >> Hauppauge, NY 11788 >> 631-272-5947 / William.Drago at L-3COM.com >> > >
