Simon Willison’s Weblog

30th April 2020

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TIL Compile a new sqlite3 binary on Ubuntu — I wanted to try the `vacuum into` backup command that was released in SQLite3 3.27.0 [on 2019-02-07](https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html#version_3_27_0).

Posted 30th April 2020 at 5:40 pm

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