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Learn Qt 5

You're reading from   Learn Qt 5 Build modern, responsive cross-platform desktop applications with Qt, C++, and QML

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478854
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicholas Sherriff Nicholas Sherriff
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SQLite

General purpose database technology has fragmented in the recent years with the explosion of NoSQL and Graph databases. However, SQL databases are still fighting fit and absolutely an appropriate choice in a lot of applications. Qt comes with built-in support for several SQL database driver types, and can be extended with custom drivers. MySQL and PostgreSQL are very popular open source SQL database engines and are both supported by default, but are intended for use on servers and require administration, which makes them a bit unnecessarily complicated for our purposes. Instead, we will use the much more lightweight SQLite, which is commonly used as a client-side database and is very popular in mobile applications due to its small footprint.

According to the official website at https://www.sqlite.org, "SQLite is a self-contained, high-reliability, embedded, full-featured...

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