How to Link an SQL Server 2008 Server to an SQLite Server?

I want to "Link" an SQLite server with an SQL Server 2008 server. E.g. using the sp_addlinkedserver command. How do I do this?

I have searched far and wide, but found no solution for this problem. The closest attempt I have found is here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic866972-149-1.aspx

--#################################################################################################
--Linked server Syntax for SQLite 
--using OLE provider C:\Program Files\Cherry City Software\SQLiteProvider\SQLitePV.dll
--from http://cherrycitysoftware.com/ccs/Download/Download.aspx
--#################################################################################################
DECLARE @server     sysname,
        @srvproduct nvarchar(256),
        @provider   nvarchar(256),
        @datasrc    nvarchar(100),
        @location   nvarchar(100),
        @provstr    nvarchar(100),
        @catalog    sysname,
        @sql        varchar(1000)
--add an SQLite Database as a linked server
SET @server = N'mySQLite'
SET @srvproduct = N'SQLite Provider'
SET @provider = N'OleSQLite.SQLiteSource.1'
SET @datasrc = N'C:\Data\LowellSSC.db3'
set @provstr    = ''
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver  @server,@srvproduct,@provider,@datasrc,NULL,@provstr
exec sp_addlinkedsrvlogin @rmtsrvname='mySQLite', 
@useself = N'false',
@locallogin = NULL,
@rmtuser = N'Admin',
@rmtpassword = NULL

--list all the tables and their names
EXEC sp_tables_ex 'mySQLite'
--above fails with this error:
--Msg 7302, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_tables_ex, Line 41
--Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider "OleSQLite.SQLiteSource.1" for linked server "mySQLite".
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_DropServer 'mySQLite', 'DropLogins'

Solution 1:

You may have better luck with an ODBC driver. There are a few on Google, one of which being http://www.patthoyts.tk/sqlite3odbc.html.

Theoretically, if you can install the ODBC driver, you can create a system DSN. If you can create a system DSN, you can add it as a linked server.

Of course, both OLEDB and ODBC tend to fall over if the OLEDB/ODBC drivers are 32-bit and the SQL Server is 64-bit; I don't believe you can instantiate a 32-bit OLEDB/ODBC driver in 64-bit SQL (I think we had similar trouble wih Excel)

HTH

J.