Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Getting Started with DuckDB

You're reading from   Getting Started with DuckDB A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241005
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Ned Letcher Ned Letcher
Author Profile Icon Ned Letcher
Ned Letcher
Simon Aubury Simon Aubury
Author Profile Icon Simon Aubury
Simon Aubury
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: An Introduction to DuckDB FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Loading Data into DuckDB 3. Chapter 3: Data Manipulation with DuckDB 4. Chapter 4: DuckDB Operations and Performance 5. Chapter 5: DuckDB Extensions 6. Chapter 6: Semi-Structured Data Manipulation 7. Chapter 7: Setting up the DuckDB Python Client 8. Chapter 8: Exploring DuckDB’s Python API 9. Chapter 9: Exploring DuckDB’s R API 10. Chapter 10: Using DuckDB Effectively 11. Chapter 11: Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with DuckDB 12. Chapter 12: DuckDB – The Wider Pond 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Loading Data into DuckDB

DuckDB is a flexible analytical database that can handle a variety of data types and workloads. A common task when working with DuckDB is loading data from external data sources, such as comma-separated values (CSV), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and Apache Parquet files. In this chapter, we will introduce the basic concepts and methods for loading data into DuckDB and provide some examples and best practices to help you get started.

You will learn how to load data into DuckDB from external data sources, how to create tables using SQL commands, and how to load data from various sources and formats, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet files, along with exploring some of the considerations when working with compressed columnar formats. We will also use DuckDB to query and analyze a public dataset, in addition to reviewing how we can export data from DuckDB.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Loading CSV files...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image