SQLITE_OKSUCCESSTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Successful result

Category: SuccessVersions: 3.0+

🔴 Production Risk Error

None — this indicates success.

What this means

SQLITE_OK (0) is returned by almost every SQLite API function to indicate success. A return value of 0 means the operation completed without error.

Why it happens

  1. 1Not an error — the operation succeeded.

How to reproduce

Returned by sqlite3_open(), sqlite3_exec(), sqlite3_step() (first row), and most other API calls on success.

trigger — this will ERROR
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
rc = conn.execute('SELECT 1')
# rc is a cursorno exception means SQLITE_OK internally
No exception raised; cursor or result returned.

Fix 1

Why this works

No fix needed — this is the success code.

Sources

📚 Official docs: https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#ok

🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_OK = 0

📖 Further reading: SQLite result codes

Confidence assessment

⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Stable. SQLITE_OK has been 0 since the beginning.

See also

📄 Reference pages

SQLite result codes
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