In Practice Quiz 5, the command to open the database was omitted. sqlite3_open (path,&db) Putting it in an if and comparing it to SQLITE_OK is not something I would require on a quiz. If you want to open it as though it were a Desktop program rather than an iPhone app, and you want to set path = "names.db" or something not crazy like path = "/Users/jsmith/Desktop/names.db", this is fine, too.