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- Pragmas 13732
- The PRAGMA statement is a SQL extension adopted by DuckDB from SQLite. PRAGMA statements can be issued in a similar manner to regular SQL statements. PRAGMA commands may alter the internal state of the database engine, and can influence the
...umn types of the returned results are given below: database_name VARCHAR, -- database name database_size VARCHAR, -- total block count times the block size block_size BIGINT, -- database block size total_blocks BIGINT, -- total blocks in the database...used_blocks BIGINT, -- used blocks in the database free_blocks BIGINT, -- free blocks in the database wal_size VARCHAR, -- write ahea...Lightweight Compression in DuckDB” blog post stats VARIANT has_updates BOOLEAN persistent BOOLEAN false if temporary table block_id BIGINT Empty unless persistent block_offset BIGINT Empty unless persistent additional_block_ids BIGINT[] Empty unless p... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/configuration/pragmas.html
- Configuration 11806
- DuckDB has a number of configuration options that can be used to change the behavior of the system. The configuration options can be set using either the SET statement or the PRAGMA statement . They can be reset to their original values usi
...xtension repositories are 'allowed', 'forbidden' (which also distrusts existing repositories) or 'undecided' (the default: blocks adding new repositories, but keeps trusting existing ones). While the database is running the setting can only move from...which point we will skip writing to the WAL and only checkpoint. Skipping writing to the WAL means concurrent commits are blocked while the checkpoint is happening. UBIGINT 100000 auto_fallback_to_full_download Allows automatically falling back to fu...a query depends on them. BOOLEAN true binary_as_string In Parquet files, interpret binary data as a string. BOOLEAN false block_allocator_memory Physical memory that the block allocator is allowed to use. This memory is allocated once, never freed, a... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/configuration/overview.html
- Appender 10726
- Use an appender to insert rows that your Python code produces. It collects rows and writes them together in one SQL statement; this is called flushing. The with block below flushes on successful exit: import duckdb con = duckdb.connect() co
...if you started one with BEGIN or con.begin() , and otherwise commits by itself. A flush with no rows does nothing. A with block flushes on successful exit. When an exception leaves the block, the buffered rows are discarded and the exception propagat...es. Outside a with block, call flush() to write the rows and clear() to discard them. There is no close() method. The appender remains usable after...flush() , clear() or leaving a with block. Warning Garbage collection discards buffered rows and emits a ResourceWarning . Call flush() or use a with block to write... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/clients/python/appender.html
- Azure Extension 9763
- The azure extension lets DuckDB read and write files in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Installing and Loading The azure extension will be transparently autoloaded on first use from the official extension reposit
...dows.net/⟨my_container⟩/⟨path⟩/output.parquet'; Since v1.5.4, the extension buffers written data locally and uploads it in blocks of azure_write_block_size bytes (default: 8 MiB). By default, the uploaded blocks are committed when the file is closed,...so other readers see the new content only after the write completes. To commit earlier, set azure_write_staged_blocks_per_commit to the number of blocks after which an intermediate commit happens. Warning An intermediate commit makes an in...e default 0 for Parquet files and for Delta, Iceberg or DuckLake tables. Writing Large Files Azure limits a blob to 50,000 blocks. With the default block size of 8 MiB, the largest file you can write is about 390 GiB. To write larger files, increase a... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/core_extensions/azure.html
- Working with Huge Databases 9531
- This page contains information for working with huge DuckDB database files. While most DuckDB databases are well below 1 TB, in our 2024 user survey , 1% of respondents used DuckDB files of 2 TB or more (corresponding to roughly 10 TB of CS
...things to keep in mind when working with huge database files. Object storage systems have lower limits on file sizes than block-based storage systems. For example, AWS S3 limits the file size to 5 TB . Checkpointing a DuckDB database can be slow. For...example, checkpointing after adding a few rows to a table in the TPC-H SF1000 database takes approximately 5 seconds. On block-based storage, the file system has a significant effect on performance when working with large files. On Linux, DuckDB per... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/guides/performance/working_with_huge_databases...
- Appender 8933
- The Appender can be used to load bulk data into a DuckDB database. It is available in the C, C++, Go, Java, Julia, Node.js, Python, and Rust clients. This page describes how the Appender behaves across clients and shows a minimal example in
...r has been flushed or closed, all of its data has been written to the database. Note In Python, call flush() or use a with block, which flushes on successful exit. Garbage collection discards any remaining buffered rows. See the Python Appender . Cons...Rust Appender API . Python Create an appender from a connection with appender() , then add rows with append_row() . A with block flushes on successful exit; if an exception leaves the block, the buffered rows are discarded: con = duckdb.connect() con.... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/data/appender.html
- ATTACH and DETACH Statements 8568
- DuckDB allows attaching to and detaching from database files. Examples Attach the database file.db with the alias inferred from the name ( file ): ATTACH 'file.db'; Attach the database file.db with an explicit alias ( file_db ): ATTACH 'fil
...S file_db; Attach the database file.db in read only mode: ATTACH 'file.db' (READ_ONLY); Attach the database file.db with a block size of 16 kB: ATTACH 'file.db' (BLOCK_SIZE 16_384); Attach the database file.db with a row group size of 2048 rows: ATTAC...table that is queried when the attached database is referenced directly by its catalog name (e.g., FROM ⟨db⟩ ). VARCHAR - BLOCK_SIZE The block size of a new database file. Must be a power of two and within [16384, 262144]. Cannot be set for existing... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/sql/statements/attach.html
- Utility Functions 8452
- Scalar Utility Functions The functions below are difficult to categorize into specific function types and are broadly useful. Name Description alias(column) Return the name of the column. can_cast_implicitly(source_value, target_value) Whet
...errupting transactions. gen_random_uuid() Return a random UUID similar to this: eeccb8c5-9943-b2bb-bb5e-222f4e14b687 . get_block_size(database) Returns the block size of the attached database with the given name. get_type(expression) Returns the data...UUIDv4) similar to this: eeccb8c5-9943-b2bb-bb5e-222f4e14b687 . | | Example | gen_random_uuid() | | Result | various | get_block_size(database) | Description | Returns the block size of the attached database with the given name. | | Example | get_bloc... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/sql/functions/utility.html
- Reading Faulty CSV Files 8219
- CSV files can come in all shapes and forms, with some presenting many errors that make the process of cleanly reading them inherently difficult. To help users read these files, DuckDB supports detailed error messages, the ability to skip fa
...-Detected) timestamp_format = (Auto-Detected) null_padding=0 sample_size=20480 ignore_errors=false all_varchar=0 The first block provides us with information regarding where the error occurred, including the line number, the original CSV line and whic...when converting column "birth_date". date field value out of range: "The 90s", expected format is (DD-MM-YYYY) The second block provides us with potential solutions: Column date is being converted as type DATE This type was auto-detected from the CSV...detected, it suggests defining the field as a VARCHAR or fully utilizing the dataset for type detection. Finally, the last block presents some of the options used in the scanner that can cause errors, indicating whether they were auto-detected or manu... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/data/csv/reading_faulty_csv_files.html
- Environment 8219
- The environment where DuckDB is run has an obvious impact on performance. This page focuses on the effects of the hardware configuration and the operating system used. Hardware Configuration CPU DuckDB's officially supported architectures a
...isk, it is important that the disks are reliable. As a general rule of thumb, this is true for locally attached disks, and block storage in the cloud. If your workload is larger than memory and/or fast data loading is important, you need fast disks, p...ind, here are two common architectures and the related considerations when you are using DuckDB's native database format : Block storage in the cloud. DuckDB runs well on network-backed cloud disks such as AWS EBS for both read-only and read-write wor... - https://man.mtool.work/duckdb/2.0/guides/performance/environment.html
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