The file is in my home folder for the project hence the lack of any path on the file. SQLite says the full path is not necessary so I did not use it. The reason I dumped the code that it was not working. I have used the wrapper previously in another project that was written in MFC and it worked flawlessly. I always try to use things that work, but in this case I was following the example on sqlite.org first, and it did not work. I moved on because this has been so frustratingly hard to get to work.