🔬 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: