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+title: "Dbcli"
+date: 2020-02-29T18:45:51-05:00
+draft: false
+tags: ["python", "database"]
+---
+
+The [DBLCI](https://www.dbcli.com/) project creates command line database clients with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. These clients are often nicer to work with than the one a database comes with. In this post we're going to demo the [LiteCLI](https://litecli.com/) client.
+
+First to install,
+
+```bash
+pip install litecli
+```
+
+I created a sqlite database and populated it with the following code
+
+```sqlite
+.open test.db
+
+CREATE TABLE Users (
+  UserID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+  firstName TEXT NOT NULL,
+  lastName TEXT NOT NULL
+);
+
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Pearl", "Perez");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Derrick", "Norton");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Joan", "Daniels");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Marian", "Lane");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Roland", "Gregory");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Charlene", "Baldwin");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Lester", "Kennedy");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Dan", "Vasquez");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Genevieve", "Dean");
+INSERT INTO Users (firstName, lastName) VALUES ("Sue", "Bennett");
+```
+
+Now let's open it up using `litecli` and show the syntax highlighting.
+
+![image-20200229185045757](/files/images/20200229185045757.png)