What's new in DuckDB and how does DuckDB fit into old shell scripts? These are topics that our DevRel Gábor covered at Ubuntu Summit 2026. His talk explained three aspects of DuckDB: a command-line tool, a portable database, and a client-server database. duckdb.org/library/duck...

I will be speaking at Ubuntu Summit 26.04 on Thursday about DuckDB. My presentation will cover DuckDB at three different deployment models: as a CLI tool, as a portable database, and as a server. The event is streamed but requires registration – see ubuntu.com/summit

I've been working on organizing our next DuckCon for the past three months. The program is finally out and I think we have a really strong lineup, featuring speakers from ETH Zürich, Spotify, MariaDB, the Merck Group, Snowflake, Foursquare, and more. Join us in Amsterdam on June 24!

Today is your last chance to submit a talk proposal to DuckCon #7. The submission form is lightweight, so it shouldn't take long. If you're in doubt whether your talk idea fits, drop us a DM and we are happy to discuss it further!

🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition. 🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files. 📖 For more details, read duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...

🔬 We are hosting the first “DuckDB in Science” meetup in London on September 4, co-located with VLDB 2025. 🔍 We'll have two deep-dive presentations from DuckDB's developers and four lightning talks from community members. 📍 For details and registration, see duckdb.org/events/2025/...

🎓 On September 4, we are hosting a new kind of meetup in London which will focus on the use of DuckDB in Science and Education! ⚡️ We still have some spots for lightning talks. If you're working with DuckDB in your research and/or classroom, consider sharing your story! 🔗 duckdb.org/events/2025/...

🚀 The DuckDB 1.3.2 bugfix release is out! 📦 The Python and CLI clients are already on the latest version, while the rest will follow in the coming days. 🔖 See the detailed change log at github.com/duckdb/duckd...

I wrote a small Bash snippet to streamline my workflow for using Cloudflare R2 with the AWS CLI: szarnyasg.org/posts/cloudf...

It turns out DuckDB can load Latin-2 encoded CSV files just fine with the combination of iconv and the shellfs extension.

New blog post by @a13x.bsky.social and @archie.sarrewood.com: Reading and Writing Google Sheets in DuckDB This post introduces the gsheets community extension, which enables DuckDB to directly read from and write to Google Sheets. duckdb.org/2025/02/26/g...

I solved the exercises in Chapter 5 of the "Data Science at the Command Line" book using the @duckdb.org CLI client. Most exercises had a straightforward solution in DuckDB's SQL – see here: szarnyasg.org/posts/data-s... I gathered some ideas for DuckDB blog posts and learned a few new CLI tricks: