diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e575531..f9f7d30 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ maintainers = [{name = "Pau Ruiz Safont", email = "pau.safont+pypi@vates.tech"}]
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 license-files = ["LICENSE"]
-dependencies = ["sexpdata", "xmltodict"]
+dependencies = ["sexpdata", "xmltodict", "sqlite-utils"]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [project.scripts]
 "xapi-to-json" = "xapitodict.cmd.xapitojson:main"
+"xapi-to-sql" = "xapitodict.cmd.xapitosql:main"
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/mseri/xapitodict"
diff --git a/xapitodict/cmd/__init__.py b/xapitodict/cmd/__init__.py
index 67f9405..a07d015 100644
--- a/xapitodict/cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/xapitodict/cmd/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """
-xapitodict: Command line utility to extract a xapi db xml dump to a pretty-printed json
+xapitodict: Command line utility to extract a xapi db xml dump to a pretty-printed json or SQL
 """
diff --git a/xapitodict/cmd/xapitosql.py b/xapitodict/cmd/xapitosql.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3937d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xapitodict/cmd/xapitosql.py
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+"""
+xapi-to-sql: simple cli util to dump an xml blob of the xapi db to SQL
+"""
+from __future__ import print_function, division
+
+import argparse
+from sqlite_utils import Database
+import os
+import sys
+
+from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
+
+import xapitodict
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version("xapitodict")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    # package is not installed
+    pass
+
+def dump_to_db(db: Database, db_dict: dict) -> None:
+    for tablename, table in db_dict.items():
+        db[tablename].insert_all(table, pk = "ref", strict=True)
+
+def dump_dict_to_file(filename, db_dict: dict):
+    """
+    Simple helper to dump an extracted db to json file
+    """
+    db = Database(filename)
+    dump_to_db(db, db_dict)
+    db.close()
+
+
+def dump_dict_to_stdout(db_dict):
+    """
+    Simple helper to dump an extracted db to json file
+    """
+    db = Database(memory=True)
+    dump_to_db(db, db_dict)
+    for line in db.iterdump():
+        print(line)
+    db.close()
+
+
+def parse_args_or_exit(argv=None):
+    """
+    Parse command line options
+    """
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description='CLI util to dump an xml dump of the xapi db to json')
+    parser.add_argument('--version', action='version',
+                        version="%%(prog)s %s" % __version__)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-v", "--print-db-version", dest="print_db", action='store_true',
+        help="Include the version metadata of the extracted xapi db "
+             "in the '_version' key")
+    parser.add_argument("xapi_db", metavar="XAPIDB",
+                        help="Path to the xml dump of the xapi database")
+    parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", metavar="DEST",
+                        dest="dest", default=None,
+                        help="Path to the output SQLite file. "
+                             "Print to stdout when missing")
+    return parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+    """
+    Entry point
+    """
+
+    args = parse_args_or_exit(argv)
+
+    # common failures
+    if not os.path.exists(args.xapi_db):
+        sys.exit("Error: unable to find the database file '{}'".
+                 format(args.xapi_db))
+
+    if args.dest is not None and os.path.isdir(args.dest):
+        sys.exit("Error: the output file '{}' already exists and is a folder".
+                 format(args.dest))
+
+    # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+    db, vsn = xapitodict.xapi_to_dict(args.xapi_db)
+    if args.print_db:
+        db["_version"] = vsn
+
+    if args.dest is not None:
+        dump_dict_to_file(args.dest, db)
+        print("'{}' has been converted and saved to '{}'".format(
+            os.path.basename(args.xapi_db),
+            os.path.basename(args.dest)), file=sys.stderr)
+    else:
+        dump_dict_to_stdout(db)