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Introducing DuckDB

In this showcase tutorial, you'll be introduced to a library that allows you to use a database in your code. DuckDB provides an efficient relational database that supports many features you may already be familiar with from more traditional relational database systems.

Mar 26, 2025 intermediate databases data-science python

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