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Fast Geographic Data Extraction from SQL Server to Parquet with FastBCP
Databaseen13 Jul 2026

Fast Geographic Data Extraction from SQL Server to Parquet with FastBCP

SQL Server holds spatial data in geography and geometry columns.

#FastBCP#ArrowTDS#SQL Server
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An example ETL Pipeline with dlt + SQLMesh + DuckDB
Databaseen27 Nov 2025

An example ETL Pipeline with dlt + SQLMesh + DuckDB

In this post, we walk through building a basic ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) pipeline.

#DuckDB#SQLMesh#dlt
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Data Loading from S3 Parquet Files to PostgreSQL on OVH Cloud
Databaseen29 Sept 2025

Data Loading from S3 Parquet Files to PostgreSQL on OVH Cloud

Loading data efficiently from cloud storage into databases remains a critical challenge for data engineers.

#FastTransfer#S3 Parquet files#PostgreSQL bulk loading
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Spatial queries in DuckDB with R-tree and H3 indexing
Databaseen4 Mar 2025

Spatial queries in DuckDB with R-tree and H3 indexing

This Python notebook explores the use of two indexing techniques, R-tree and H3, for performing spatial queries in DuckDB.

#Python#DuckDB#Spatial
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In-memory cosine distance calculation, NumPy vs DuckDB
Databaseen1 Mar 2025

In-memory cosine distance calculation, NumPy vs DuckDB

This notebook compares the performance of NumPy and DuckDB for computing cosine distances on the same dataset.

#Numpy#Cosine distance#vector
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Using DuckDB with Tableau Desktop on Windows
Databaseen4 Nov 2024

Using DuckDB with Tableau Desktop on Windows

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system. These database is very fast for OLAP queries and have several advantages: There is also…

#DuckDB#database#OLAP
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A Hybrid information retriever with DuckDB
Databaseen30 May 2024

A Hybrid information retriever with DuckDB

When it comes to information retrieval, vector search methods have demonstrated some good performance, especially when the embedding models have been…

#Python#DuckDB#Hybrid information retriever
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Streaming data from PostgreSQL to a CSV file as fast as possible
Databaseen8 Jan 2024

Streaming data from PostgreSQL to a CSV file as fast as possible

In this post, we explore the process of streaming data from a PostgreSQL database to a CSV file using Python.

#Python#SQL#PostgreSQL
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Parquet file sorting test
Databaseen15 Nov 2023

Parquet file sorting test

Some time ago, we came across an intriguing Parquet sorting test shared by Mimoune Djouallah on Twitter @mim_djo.

#Python#TPC-H#Benchmark
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