Posts about SQL

Posts about SQL: querying data with DuckDB, transpiling SQL between dialects and generating SQL from natural language with LLMs.

9 posts

Merges for DuckDB branches and snapshots

differential 1.1 brings three-way merges to DuckDB: merge branches and snapshots, fast-forward, resolve typed conflicts with a table, merge schemas, use S3.

October 27, 2026
25 min read
duckdbsqldata-engineering

Diffing DuckDB branches and snapshots with plain SQL

Diff DuckDB branches and snapshots with plain SQL: EXCEPT, a keyed FULL JOIN, changed columns and a reusable cell-level diff macro for differential.

October 23, 2026
9 min read
duckdbsqldata-engineering

Versioned DuckDB databases, locally or replicated through S3, for people and agents

differential extension for DuckDB 2.0: snapshots, branches and time travel locally, plus leader/follower replicas, failover and shared writers via S3.

October 21, 2026
12 min read
duckdbdata-engineeringsql

Teaching coding agents the differential DuckDB extension with an Agent Skill

duckdb-differential now ships an Agent Skill, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can version, branch and replicate DuckDB databases correctly.

October 21, 2026
8 min read
duckdbaiskill

Differential storage for DuckDB

Add snapshots, time travel and writable branches to native DuckDB databases from SQL with duckdb-differential, and publish versions to S3.

October 14, 2026
8 min read
duckdbdata-engineeringsql

Introducing polyglot - A Rust/Wasm SQL transpilation library

polyglot transpiles SQL between 33 dialects like PostgreSQL, BigQuery and Snowflake. A Rust port of sqlglot, compiled to Wasm to run in the browser and Node.js.

February 14, 2026
5 min read
sqlrustwasm

Chat with a Duck

Query your data in plain English: use the DuckDB-NSQL LLM via Ollama to generate DuckDB SQL from natural language prompts in the browser-based SQL Workbench.

April 16, 2024
4 min read
aisqlllm

Using DuckDB-WASM for in-browser Data Engineering

Analyze, transform and visualize local and remote data in the browser with DuckDB-WASM and SQL Workbench, including a full example data engineering pipeline.

January 27, 2024
15 min read
sqlwasmdata-engineering

Casual data engineering, or: A poor man's Data Lake in the cloud - Part I

Build a cost-effective, near-realtime serverless data lake on AWS with CloudFront, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Glue and DuckDB.

April 24, 2023
19 min read
awssqlserverless