Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” 🦆 This is the biggest #DuckDB feature release ever, and it's shipping a polished version of the Quack protocol for DuckDB-as-a-server, async I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible SQL parser and more – read on for details.

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 2.0.0 LTS, codenamed “Cinnamon Teal” (Spatula cyanoptera). This is our biggest feature release so far, and it ships a pol...

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Accepted papers are up and registration is open for CIDR 2027! January 24th-27th in Amsterdam. www.cidrdb.org/cidr2027/pap... www.cidrdb.org/cidr2027/reg...

The call for contributions to #BOBkonf2027 is still open for one more month! We'd love to see yours. Submission deadline is 2nd November. Find more information, check bobkonf.de/2027/cfc.html #BOBkonf

At U Tübingen, we need 5s to introduce students to programming fundamentals.

Listened to the latest episode of the Type Theory for All podcast (www.typetheoryforall.com/episodes/pl-...) which was absolutely great. Now have the following pinned on my office wall, lest I forget. Thanks, @shriram.bsky.social.

The #BOBkonf2027 Call for Contributions is live! We're accepting submissions until 2 November 2026. More information regarding the call can be found here: bobkonf.de/2027/cfc.html

[v2.0 preview:] #DuckDB’s recursive CTE engine now treats recursion as 1 long-lived computation: it retains eligible epoch-invariant state, chooses execution modes from exact frontier cardinalities and physical work, probes keyed state directly and gives `USING KEY ... UNION` changed-key semantics.

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Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt + @hannes.muehleisen.org preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to land this autumn): • DuckDB as a server • Triggers • async I/O • + more Dive into the deets: duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d...

We’re excited to announce the #DuckDB Boston meetup, which will take place during the week of the VLDB conference. Come join the DuckDB community in Beantown for technical talks, drinks, and networking with new faces and old friends. We hope to see you there! 🦆 (Registration is required but free)

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DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has bin...

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🦆 Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5 ! 🦆 This release includes a number of bugfixes, performance improvements, and security patches. Summary blog: duckdb.org/2026/07/22/a... Full release notes: github.com/duckdb/duckd... Thank you to all the contributors for providing detailed issue reports and patches. 💖

Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.5 with bugfixes and performance improvements.

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Check out the Awesome DuckDB repo – curated by @davidgasquez.com – to explore the growing list of handy tools and cool projects built around #DuckDB, DuckLake and more. 😎 🦆 Notice a great tool that’s missing? Submit a PR to get it added. Start exploring: davidgasquez.github.io/awesome-duck...

June 2026 issue of #SIGMODRecord is out. And so is the new issue of the Reminiscences column. Many thanks to @teggy.org (Torsten Grust), Wenjie Zhang, and Viktor Sanca for their contributions!! pdf --> sigmodrecord.org/publications...

🤩 DuckCon's talk slides and recordings are out!

DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam

We're hosting DuckCon #7 in our home town of Amsterdam on Wednesday, June 24.

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Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.4.5 and v1.5.4. Yes, we know – these version numbers can be a bit confusing! That's why we wrote two blog posts this time. The thread helps you pick the right one 🧵

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DuckCon #7 is coming up and we're looking for sponsors. We have a lineup of 15 speakers, sharing their experiences with DuckDB. For the first time, the talks will also cover DuckLake and Quack. Check out the sponsorship packages on the conference site, duckcon.org

Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.5.3. This is not an ordinary patch release – it packs many new features for the Quack client-server protocol, Quack support for DuckLake, and big updates for AWS, HTTPS and Iceberg. Check out our blog post about all these changes and improvements – link in the 🧵.

ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way modern-sql.com/blog/2026-05... The ORDER BY clause is surely one of the best-known SQL clauses. Yet there are a number of common misunderstandings that are worth clearing up. For that, the article walks you through the evolution of the ORDER BY clause the SQL standard.

SQL’s ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way

ORDER BY Evolution

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This Tuesday, Hannes announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch his talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are. youtu.be/L_lttD-d1wc

DuckDB-Quack announcement at AI Council

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ISTANBUL, WIR KOMMEN! ❤️‍🔥

I've been working on organizing our next DuckCon for the past three months. The program is finally out and I think we have a really strong lineup, featuring speakers from ETH Zürich, Spotify, MariaDB, the Merck Group, Snowflake, Foursquare, and more. Join us in Amsterdam on June 24!

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The program for DuckCon #7 is out! Here's the gist: – State of the Duck: DuckLake v1.0 + a super-secret new feature – Six regular talks (incl. one from Spotify) – Six lightning talks (incl. Toyota Gazoo WRT) – Drinks & snacks and time to socialize 🧵 Full program and registration link in the thread

The program for DuckCon #7 is out! Here's the gist: – State of the Duck: DuckLake v1.0 + a super-secret new feature – Six regular talks (incl. one from Spotify) – Six lightning talks (incl. Toyota Gazoo WRT) – Drinks & snacks and time to socialize 🧵 Full program and registration link in the thread

Flattered that the good FP folks put up with me as a DB guy. Thank you for the chat, @kosmikus.bsky.social and @sperbsen.bsky.social. What a fun hour to spend!

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We sat down with Torsten Grust who is a professor of DB systems at the University of Tübingen. We talked about the best way to program databases, how to bridge the gap between regular programming languages and databases, and compiling just about everything to SQL. haskell.foundation/podcast/81/

We are hosting the next edition of our community conference, DuckCon, in Amsterdam on June 24. The registration is already open and you can submit your talk proposals until next Wednesday. Looking forward to your submissions and seeing the flock in the summer!

🇳🇱 DuckCon returns to the Netherlands! We'll host our next edition on June 24 in Amsterdam. We are looking forward to meeting the DuckDB community in our home town's Royal Tropical Institute for an afternoon of talks and discussions. Please submit your talk proposals and register! duckcon.org

🚨 "AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets" with Mat Gienieczko (@gienieczko.com) is available now! Watch on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/2YwC_GVvxgA?... Listen on Spotify ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/1YAf... Listen on Apple ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The Artisanal Sudoku book is now available! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...

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Eye-catchingly elegant, satisfyingly tricky logic puzzles! Sudoku is one of the most popular, ubiquitous puzzles around—but most of the sudoku out there ar...

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