{"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-inspect-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-inspect-help", "title": "datasette inspect", "content": "Outputs JSON representing introspected data about one or more SQLite database files. \n             If you are opening an immutable database, you can pass this file to the  --inspect-data  option to improve Datasette's performance by allowing it to skip running row counts against the database when it first starts running: \n             datasette inspect mydatabase.db > inspect-data.json\ndatasette serve -i mydatabase.db --inspect-file inspect-data.json \n             This performance optimization is used automatically by some of the  datasette publish  commands. You are unlikely to need to apply this optimization manually. \n             [[[cog\nhelp([\"inspect\", \"--help\"]) \n             ]]] \n             Usage: datasette inspect [OPTIONS] [FILES]...\n\n  Generate JSON summary of provided database files\n\n  This can then be passed to \"datasette --inspect-file\" to speed up count\n  operations against immutable database files.\n\nOptions:\n  --inspect-file TEXT\n  --load-extension PATH:ENTRYPOINT?\n                                  Path to a SQLite extension to load, and\n                                  optional entrypoint\n  --help                          Show this message and exit. \n             [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"}