Does it matter what extension is used for SQLite database files?

Are there advantages or disadvantages to the file extension used for SQLite databases?

It seems that SQLite itself does not require a naming convention, but there might be other reasons that a particular extension would be useful or problematic – for instance, certain tools, programming languages, installers, etc. Or end user considerations.

The most common ones appear to be .sqlite, .db, and .db3.

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