Some of my coworkers have been dealing with major Ceph issues for the past month. As part of the work, there've been a number of Ceph information dumps, RBD image information, PG information, and lists of incomplete PDs, all in text or CSV files. To help out my coworkers, I wrote up Python code to parse all of those files into a SQLite database. Why? Well, because I can ship the database to anywhere, as one file, and it can be accessed through the SQLite CLI.

In another case, a client was building a list of files to consider for deletion. The list included path, size, type (file or directory), and owning user. Before doing anything else, I imported the entire thing into SQLite using the `.import` command. Which was good, because it was able to identify cases of files that included a tab in their paths!