Hi Cecil,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:47:50 +0200
Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a strange problem with org-babel and SQLite.
>
> I have a database that is created with:
>     CREATE TABLE "quotes" (
>         quoteID         TEXT           PRIMARY KEY,
>         quote           TEXT NOT NULL  UNIQUE,
>         lastUsed        TEXT,
>         totalUsed       INT  DEFAULT 'unused'
>     )
>
> When using:
>     #+BEGIN_SRC sqlite :db ~/Twitter/twitter.sqlite :colnames yes
>     SELECT   lastUsed
>     ,        totalUsed
>     FROM     quotes
>     ORDER BY lastused  ASC
>     ,        totalUsed DESC
>     LIMIT    40
>     #+END_SRC
>
> Everything is fine. But when I use (add the quote field in the
> select): #+BEGIN_SRC sqlite :db ~/Twitter/twitter.sqlite :colnames yes
>     SELECT   quote
>     ,        lastUsed
>     ,        totalUsed
>     FROM     quotes
>     ORDER BY lastused  ASC
>     ,        totalUsed DESC
>     LIMIT    40
>     #+END_SRC
>
> I get:
>     executing Sqlite code block...
>     Wrote /tmp/babel-27920y_/ob-input-2792BTG
>     org-babel-read: End of file during parsing
>
> What could be the problem?
>

does it work outside of org/babel/emacs, that is, when you use the
query in a command line sqlite session, does it work?  “quote” is also
a function in sqlite, so this might be your issue.