diff --git a/pyfpdb/Database.py b/pyfpdb/Database.py
index 7194b230..c24d13fb 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/Database.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/Database.py
@@ -1286,6 +1286,7 @@ class Database:
                 p['tableName'], 
                 p['gameTypeId'], 
                 p['siteHandNo'], 
+                0, # tourneyId: 0 means not a tourney hand
                 p['handStart'], 
                 datetime.today(), #importtime
                 p['seats'],
diff --git a/pyfpdb/SQL.py b/pyfpdb/SQL.py
index 5913c624..5ff4c8e6 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/SQL.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/SQL.py
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ class Sql:
                             id BIGINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id),
                             tableName VARCHAR(22) NOT NULL,
                             siteHandNo BIGINT NOT NULL,
+                            tourneyId INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, 
                             gametypeId SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY (gametypeId) REFERENCES Gametypes(id),
                             handStart DATETIME NOT NULL,
                             importTime DATETIME NOT NULL,
@@ -249,6 +250,7 @@ class Sql:
                             id BIGSERIAL, PRIMARY KEY (id),
                             tableName VARCHAR(22) NOT NULL,
                             siteHandNo BIGINT NOT NULL,
+                            tourneyId INT NOT NULL,
                             gametypeId INT NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY (gametypeId) REFERENCES Gametypes(id),
                             handStart timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
                             importTime timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
@@ -283,6 +285,7 @@ class Sql:
                             id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
                             tableName TEXT(22) NOT NULL,
                             siteHandNo INT NOT NULL,
+                            tourneyId INT NOT NULL,
                             gametypeId INT NOT NULL,
                             handStart REAL NOT NULL,
                             importTime REAL NOT NULL,
@@ -3437,6 +3440,7 @@ class Sql:
                                             tablename,
                                             gametypeid,
                                             sitehandno,
+                                            tourneyId,
                                             handstart,
                                             importtime,
                                             seats,
@@ -3467,7 +3471,7 @@ class Sql:
                                              VALUES
                                               (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s,
                                                %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s,
-                                               %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)"""
+                                               %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)"""
 
 
         self.query['store_hands_players'] = """INSERT INTO HandsPlayers (
diff --git a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
index 514823af..bdbf430c 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
@@ -154,19 +154,21 @@ class fpdb_db:
                     print msg
                     raise FpdbError(msg)
         elif backend == fpdb_db.SQLITE:
-            logging.info("Connecting to SQLite:%(database)s" % {'database':database})
+            logging.info("Connecting to SQLite: %(database)s" % {'database':database})
             import sqlite3
             if use_pool:
                 sqlite3 = pool.manage(sqlite3, pool_size=1)
             else:
                 logging.warning("SQLite won't work well without 'sqlalchemy' installed.")
 
-            if not os.path.isdir(self.config.dir_databases) and not database ==  ":memory:":
-                print "Creating directory: '%s'" % (self.config.dir_databases)
-                logging.info("Creating directory: '%s'" % (self.config.dir_databases))
-                os.mkdir(self.config.dir_databases)
+            if database != ":memory:":
+                if not os.path.isdir(self.config.dir_databases):
+                    print "Creating directory: '%s'" % (self.config.dir_databases)
+                    logging.info("Creating directory: '%s'" % (self.config.dir_databases))
+                    os.mkdir(self.config.dir_databases)
+                    createTables = True # not needed? just test for no settings table
                 database = os.path.join(self.config.dir_databases, database)
-                createTables = True
+            logging.info("  sqlite db: " + database)
             self.db = sqlite3.connect(database, detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES )
             sqlite3.register_converter("bool", lambda x: bool(int(x)))
             sqlite3.register_adapter(bool, lambda x: "1" if x else "0")