diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh b/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
index 2187f3ac..5fd9832e 100755
--- a/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@
 colfile="/opt/pihole/COL_TABLE"
 source ${colfile}
 
+# Determine database location
+# Obtain DBFILE=... setting from pihole-FTL.db
+# Constructed to return nothing when
+# a) the setting is not present in the config file, or
+# b) the setting is commented out (e.g. "#DBFILE=...")
+DBFILE="$(sed -n -e 's/^\s^.DBFILE\s*=\s*//p' /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf)"
+# Test for empty string. Use standard path in this case.
+if [ -z "$DBFILE" ]; then
+  DBFILE="/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db"
+fi
+
 if [[ "$@" != *"quiet"* ]]; then
   echo -ne "  ${INFO} Flushing /var/log/pihole.log ..."
 fi
@@ -41,8 +52,12 @@ else
       echo " " > /var/log/pihole.log.1
     fi
   fi
+  # Delete most recent 24 hours from FTL's database, leave even older data intact (don't wipe out all history)
+  deleted=$(sqlite3 "${DBFILE}" "DELETE FROM queries WHERE timestamp >= strftime('%s','now')-86400; select changes() from queries limit 1")
+
 fi
 
 if [[ "$@" != *"quiet"* ]]; then
   echo -e "${OVER}  ${TICK} Flushed /var/log/pihole.log"
+  echo -e "  ${TICK} Deleted ${deleted} queries from database"
 fi
diff --git a/automated install/basic-install.sh b/automated install/basic-install.sh
index 0a84899f..869dc57f 100755
--- a/automated install/basic-install.sh	
+++ b/automated install/basic-install.sh	
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ if command -v apt-get &> /dev/null; then
   # These programs are stored in an array so they can be looped through later
   INSTALLER_DEPS=(apt-utils dialog debconf dhcpcd5 git ${iproute_pkg} whiptail)
   # Pi-hole itself has several dependencies that also need to be installed
-  PIHOLE_DEPS=(bc cron curl dnsmasq dnsutils iputils-ping lsof netcat sudo unzip wget idn2)
+  PIHOLE_DEPS=(bc cron curl dnsmasq dnsutils iputils-ping lsof netcat sudo unzip wget idn2 sqlite3)
   # The Web dashboard has some that also need to be installed
   # It's useful to separate the two since our repos are also setup as "Core" code and "Web" code
   PIHOLE_WEB_DEPS=(lighttpd ${phpVer}-common ${phpVer}-cgi ${phpVer}-${phpSqlite})