diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7c26db2..939872b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -27,5 +27,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "fs-extra": "^8.1.0",
     "yargs": "^15.1.0"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=10.0.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/snippets/db/dot_parser.js b/snippets/db/dot_parser.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc08c7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snippets/db/dot_parser.js
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require ('fs-extra');
+
+/**
+ * @param str
+ */
+function get_table_info (str) {
+  const lines = str.split (/\n/ug);
+  lines.splice (0, 2);
+  lines.splice (lines.length - 2, 2);
+  const name_line = lines.splice (0);
+  const { name } = (/<b>(?<name>\S)<\/b>/u).exec (name_line).groups;
+  const columns = [];
+
+  return { name, columns };
+}
+
+/**
+ * get all tables from a structure file
+ *
+ * @param {string} file path to the structure file
+ * @returns {Array<object>} tables
+ */
+async function get_tables (file) {
+  const lines = (await fs.readFile (file, 'utf-8')).split (/\n/gu);
+  const curr = [];
+  const tables = [];
+  for (const l of lines) {
+    if (curr.length > 0 || (/\S+ \[label=</u).test (l))
+      curr.push (l);
+
+    if ((/>\]/u).test (l)) {
+      tables.push (curr.join ('\n'));
+      curr.splice (0, curr.length);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return tables.map ((val) => get_table_info (val));
+}
+
+module.exports = { get_tables };
diff --git a/snippets/db/index.js b/snippets/db/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45bba7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snippets/db/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) Sapphirecode - All Rights Reserved
+ * This file is part of snippeteer which is released under BSD-3-Clause.
+ * See file 'LICENSE' for full license details.
+ * Created by Timo Hocker <timo@scode.ovh>, January 2020
+ */
+
+/* eslint-disable no-sync */
+/* eslint-disable no-console */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require ('fs-extra');
+const path = require ('path');
+
+/**
+ * copies the full template to a new folder named after arg[0]
+ *
+ * @param {string} folder folder to run in
+ * @param {Array} args function arguments
+ */
+function run (folder, args) {
+  const snip_folder_path = [ folder ];
+  if (args.length > 0)
+    snip_folder_path.push (args[0]);
+  const snip_folder = path.join (...snip_folder_path);
+  const template = path.join (__dirname, 'template');
+  if (!fs.existsSync (snip_folder))
+    fs.mkdir (snip_folder);
+  for (const f of fs.readdirSync (template)) {
+    fs.copy (
+      path.join (template, f),
+      path.join (snip_folder, f),
+      {
+        recursive: true,
+        filter:    (src, dest) => !fs.existsSync (dest)
+      }
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * checks if the arguments meet the requirements
+ *
+ * @param {string} folder folder to run in
+ * @param {Array} args function arguments
+ * @returns {boolean} true if arguments match requirements
+ */
+function assert (folder, args) {
+  const tests = [
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length < 2),
+      reason: 'too many arguments'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0 || typeof args[0] === 'string'),
+      reason: 'name is not a string'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0 || (/^[a-z]+$/iu).test (args[0])),
+      reason: 'name can only contain [a-z]'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (typeof folder === 'string'),
+      reason: 'cwd is not a folder (internal error)'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (fs.existsSync (folder)),
+      reason: 'cwd does not exist (internal error)'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 1 || fs.readdirSync (folder).length === 0),
+      reason: 'folder is not empty'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0
+          || !fs.existsSync (path.join (folder, args[0]))),
+      reason: 'folder already exists'
+    }
+  ];
+  for (const test of tests) {
+    if (!test.f ()) {
+      console.log (test.reason);
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+module.exports = { run, assert };