# Database swapper
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/database-swapper/67877
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [November 16, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/database-swapper/67877 "2023-11-16T19:42:36Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Romano](https://community.glideapps.com/u/John_Romano)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/database-swapper/67877/1 "2023-11-16T19:42:36Z")
Why isn’t there some really smart computer glide programmer out there that can build a Data swap tool this tool should be able to swap databases seamlessly.
For instance. If I built an app off of Google sheets, and I wanted to convert the database to glide or to Airtable. This tool would copy the databases, and also any formulated columns inside of glide that Was built on top of the databases data.
Seems like this would naturally involve API’s or some deep environment manipulation by the developer of glide.
How possible is this and does this solve database backups?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/database-swapper/67877/2 "2023-11-16T23:34:59Z")
At the moment what you described seems to not be possible, it would stuck at the step of adding new tables/new columns because the API doesn’t support that.