Cheatsheet
Installation - Windows
scoop install duckdbJDBC - Connect to in-memory database
JDBC URL
jdbc:duckdb:JDBC - Connect to database file
JDBC URL
jdbc:duckdb:$database_file_pathSQL - Read a CSV file
SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('file.csv');Cheatsheet - Parquet
CLI - Query a Parquet file
duckdb -s "FROM '$file_parquet' LIMIT 10;"SQL - Query a Parquet file
SELECT * FROM 'file.parquet';If the file does not end in .parquet, use the read_parquet function:
SELECT * FROM read_parquet('file.parq');SQL - Read all Parquet files in a directory
SELECT * FROM 'directory/*.parquet';SQL - Query the metadata contained within a Parquet file
SELECT * FROM parquet_metadata('file.parquet');SQL - Use a list of globs to read all Parquet files from multiple different folders
SELECT * FROM read_parquet(['folder1/*.parquet', 'folder2/*.parquet']);SQL - Show the column names and column types of a Parquet file
DESCRIBE SELECT * FROM 'file.parquet';SQL - Show internal schema of a Parquet file
SELECT * FROM parquet_schema('file.parquet');SQL - Query file-level metadata of a Parquet file
SELECT * FROM parquet_file_metadata('file.parquet');SQL - Create a table from a query
CREATE TABLE table_name AS SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('file.csv');Cheatsheet - Excel
SQL - Export a table to an Excel file
CREATE TABLE test AS
SELECT * FROM 'file.parquet';
COPY test TO 'test.xlsx' WITH (FORMAT xlsx, HEADER true);Cheatsheet - Extensions
List all extensions
SELECT extension_name, installed, description
FROM duckdb_extensions();Cheatsheet - Shell
Shell - Open a DuckDB database file
.open $database_file_pathShell - Exit
Ctrl+Dor
.quitShell - List all tables and views
.tables