11th March 2026
Tool
SQLite Bytecode Explorer
— Explore SQLite's Virtual Database Engine (VDBE) by analyzing the bytecode that SQLite generates when compiling SQL queries. This tool runs the `EXPLAIN` command on your SQL statements and annotates each instruction with detailed explanations of what it does, from cursor management and table scans to index lookups and aggregate functions.
Recent articles
- The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol - 9th July 2026
- sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations - 7th July 2026
- sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) - 5th July 2026