Convert TSV to SQLite3

Upload a .csv or .tsv file and get back a SQLite3 file. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.

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CSV, Excel, SQLite, SQL, DBF (max 10 MB)

How your data is typed in SQLite3

Generated from the converter's own SQLite3 type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.

Your dataSQLite3 type
Whole numberBIGINT
Decimal (money)NUMERIC(10,2)
Floating pointREAL
True / falseBOOLEAN
DateDATE
Date and timeTIMESTAMP
Short textTEXT
Long textTEXT
Binary dataBLOB

Working from a .tsv file

Tab-separated files come out of database shells, BI exports and anything that had to avoid commas inside its own values. They go through the same reader as CSV - the tab simply wins the separator sniff - so there is nothing to configure.

  • The extension is what routes an upload, and only .csv and .tsv reach this reader. A tab-separated file saved as .txt or .tab is not recognised, so rename it before uploading.
  • Because the separator is detected from the content and not the extension, a file named .csv that is really tab-separated is still read correctly.
  • Quoting rules still apply: a double quote opening a field is treated as a quote character, which is worth knowing for exports that never intended to quote anything.

The .sqlite3 name and what carries over

The 3 in sqlite3 is the file format version and the name of the command-line tool, not a property of your conversion. One database file arrives, and the two things worth knowing about it are what it is called and what it leaves behind.

  • The file inside the zip is always database.sqlite, whichever spelling brought you to this page. Rename it to database.sqlite3, or to whatever a framework expects, once you have it - the header is what identifies it, never the extension.
  • An auto-increment column arrives holding all of its values and nothing that assigns new ones. No AUTOINCREMENT keyword is written, and the column is declared BIGINT rather than exactly INTEGER, so it is not an alias for the rowid either: rows you insert later have to supply their own key.
  • Only the rows are transactional. The very first CREATE TABLE runs in autocommit, and everything after it - that table's rows, and every later table - sits in one transaction that commits after the last row. A conversion that fails partway therefore leaves a file holding an empty shell of the first table and nothing else. You never receive that file: the zip is only assembled once the writer has returned.

Reading TSV

  • Leading zeros are preserved. A column containing 01234 is kept as text, never turned into the number 1234.
  • An empty cell becomes NULL, not an empty string — the two mean different things once the data is in a database.
  • Dates are only treated as dates when the format is unambiguous. 03/04/2025 could be March 4th or April 3rd, so it stays text unless another value in the column settles it.

Writing SQLite3

  • Columns get real declared types rather than everything being TEXT.
  • Primary keys and NOT NULL constraints are preserved.
  • A money column is declared NUMERIC(10,2), but that declaration does not stop SQLite’s own numeric affinity from converting the inserted value into a float once it lands, so 19.99 can come back with a rounding tail. Pick the DuckDB target instead when the exact decimal has to survive.

What you get

A ZIP containing database.sqlite. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.

Questions

Is converting TSV to SQLite3 free?
Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
Will my TSV data keep its types in SQLite3?
Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real SQLite3 types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
Do you store my file?
No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.

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