Convert ACCDB to SQLite3

Upload a .mdb or .accdb or .mde file and get back a SQLite3 file. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.

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How your data is typed in SQLite3

Generated from the converter's own SQLite3 type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.

Your dataSQLite3 type
Whole numberBIGINT
Decimal (money)NUMERIC(10,2)
Floating pointREAL
True / falseBOOLEAN
DateDATE
Date and timeTIMESTAMP
Short textTEXT
Long textTEXT
Binary dataBLOB

Working from an .accdb file

An .accdb file uses ACE, the engine that replaced Jet from Access 2007 onward. It adds attachment and multi-value fields that have no equivalent in any relational target, so it is worth knowing what happens to them before you convert.

  • Ordinary tables and columns convert exactly as they do from .mdb - the reader is the same one.
  • Attachment and multi-value fields have no relational equivalent and no type of their own here: they fall back to text columns rather than stopping the conversion.
  • ACE supports a genuine database password, and there is no way to supply one to the reader - remove the password in Access before uploading.
  • The recognised Access extensions are .mdb, .accdb and the compiled .mde. A compiled .accde front-end is not among them, so upload the .accdb it was built from.

The .sqlite3 name and what carries over

The 3 in sqlite3 is the file format version and the name of the command-line tool, not a property of your conversion. One database file arrives, and the two things worth knowing about it are what it is called and what it leaves behind.

  • The file inside the zip is always database.sqlite, whichever spelling brought you to this page. Rename it to database.sqlite3, or to whatever a framework expects, once you have it - the header is what identifies it, never the extension.
  • An auto-increment column arrives holding all of its values and nothing that assigns new ones. No AUTOINCREMENT keyword is written, and the column is declared BIGINT rather than exactly INTEGER, so it is not an alias for the rowid either: rows you insert later have to supply their own key.
  • Only the rows are transactional. The very first CREATE TABLE runs in autocommit, and everything after it - that table's rows, and every later table - sits in one transaction that commits after the last row. A conversion that fails partway therefore leaves a file holding an empty shell of the first table and nothing else. You never receive that file: the zip is only assembled once the writer has returned.

Reading ACCDB

  • Dates are exported in ISO form, avoiding the ambiguous 12/02/21 that Access tools produce by default.
  • NULL and the empty string stay distinct.
  • Access can hold dates outside the range it can represent. Those become NULL and the conversion tells you, rather than dropping them silently.
  • Requires mdbtools on the server; if it is unavailable you get a clear error rather than a partial conversion.

Writing SQLite3

  • Columns get real declared types rather than everything being TEXT.
  • Primary keys and NOT NULL constraints are preserved.
  • A money column is declared NUMERIC(10,2), but that declaration does not stop SQLite’s own numeric affinity from converting the inserted value into a float once it lands, so 19.99 can come back with a rounding tail. Pick the DuckDB target instead when the exact decimal has to survive.

What you get

A ZIP containing database.sqlite. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.

Questions

Is converting ACCDB to SQLite3 free?
Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
Will my ACCDB data keep its types in SQLite3?
Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real SQLite3 types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
Do you store my file?
No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.

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