diff --git a/voussoirkit/sqlhelpers.py b/voussoirkit/sqlhelpers.py
index 327d498..e06c460 100644
--- a/voussoirkit/sqlhelpers.py
+++ b/voussoirkit/sqlhelpers.py
@@ -160,3 +160,74 @@ def listify(items):
     output = ', '.join(literal(item) for item in items)
     output = f'({output})'
     return output
+
+def _extract_create_table_statements(script):
+    for statement in script.split(';'):
+        statement = statement.strip()
+        statement = statement.strip('-')
+        statement = statement.strip()
+        if statement.lower().startswith('create table'):
+            yield statement
+
+def _extract_table_name(create_table_statement):
+    # CREATE TABLE table_name(...)
+    table_name = create_table_statement.split('(')[0].strip()
+    table_name = table_name.split()[-1]
+    return table_name
+
+def _extract_columns_from_table(create_table_statement):
+    # CREATE TABLE table_name(column_name TYPE MODIFIERS, ...)
+    constraints = {'constraint', 'foreign', 'check', 'primary', 'unique'}
+    column_names = create_table_statement.split('(')[1].rsplit(')', 1)[0]
+    column_names = column_names.split(',')
+    column_names = [x.strip() for x in column_names]
+    column_names = [x.split(' ')[0] for x in column_names]
+    column_names = [c for c in column_names if c.lower() not in constraints]
+    return column_names
+
+def _reverse_index(columns):
+    return {column: index for (index, column) in enumerate(columns)}
+
+def extract_table_column_map(script):
+    '''
+    Given an entire SQL script containing CREATE TABLE statements, return a
+    dictionary of the form
+    {
+        'table1': [
+            'column1',
+            'column2',
+        ],
+        'table2': [
+            'column1',
+            'column2',
+        ],
+    }
+    '''
+    columns = {}
+    create_table_statements = _extract_create_table_statements(script)
+    for create_table_statement in create_table_statements:
+        table_name = _extract_table_name(create_table_statement)
+        columns[table_name] = _extract_columns_from_table(create_table_statement)
+    return columns
+
+def reverse_table_column_map(table_column_map):
+    '''
+    Given the table column map, return a reversed version of the form
+    {
+        'table1': {
+            'column1': 0,
+            'column2': 1,
+        },
+        'table2': {
+            'column1': 0,
+            'column2': 1,
+        },
+    }
+    If you have a row of data and you want to access one of the columns, you can
+    use this map to figure out which tuple index corresponds to the column name.
+    For example:
+        row = ('abcd', 'John', 23)
+        index = INDEX['people']['name']
+        print(row[index])
+    '''
+    return {table: _reverse_index(columns) for (table, columns) in table_column_map.items()}