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[John Ralls]

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Paul <p.matthews at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the idea John.
> 
> I had look around for an sqlite tool for analysing the database.
> 
> Theres a nice little sqlite reader/editor called sqliteman. However, when i try to open the gnucash database it responds with:
> 
> Unable to open or create file accounts.gnucash. It is probably not a database
> 
> I also found a free reporting tool for sql called openRPT but this requires an interface to sqlite as its designed for "proper" databases. The only interface i found is qsqlite which the developer has declared obsolete and it needs sqlite 2.8. Clearly not a good path to go down.
> 
> Does anyone know of any tools (for linux) that will empower me to view and/or create reports from the database?


Did you by any chance skip the part about saving your file with the SQL backend? File>Save As... then select SQLite3 from the listbox at the top of the dialog. You may have to install the SQLite3 dbi module with your package manager first.

If you did do that, make sure that 
  file accounts.gnucash
tells you that it's a sqlite3 database. If it doesn't then you're chasing the wrong file.

SQLite3 provides a command-line query tool, sqlite3, but it won't generate pretty reports. If there aren't any report writers that you like that can read SQLite3 dbs directly, perhaps you can find one that uses ODBC. There's an ODBC driver for SQLite3 at http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/.

Regards,
John Ralls