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🇳🇱 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...

This hasn’t aged well. 😅

#nurderSCF

Artisanal Sudoku 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...

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

Eine Cartoon-Zeichnung zeigt eine Straßenszene mit einem Zebrastreifen, auf dem Zahlen als Figuren mit Augen und Armen gehen. Links steht die Zahl 6 und sagt in einer Sprechblase „AFTER YOU…“ zu der vor ihr laufenden Zahl 3,1415, die den Beginn der Kreiszahl Pi darstellt und sich nach hinten umdreht. Die 3,1415 führt eine sehr lange Schlange weiterer Ziffern an, die sich wie eine endlose Reihe über den Zebrastreifen erstreckt. Unter der Szene steht der Text „A DECISION SHARON CAME TO REGRET“, was andeutet, dass Sharon (die 6) ihre Höflichkeit bereut, weil sie nun hinter der unendlich langen Zahl Pi warten muss.

🤭 💐 π-day

SC Freiburg Newsletter: In den vergangenen sechs Spielen gegen Union Berlin gab es drei Unentschieden und ebenso viele Remis.

Wie oft es wohl Patt, Punkteteilung oder Gleichstand gab? 🤔

@scfreiburg.com
#nurderSCF

We released DuckDB v1.5!

This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner.

Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...

Done. ✅

Hier hat nur einer ein Remis gerettet: die Pillen.

#nurderSCF

1:0, unverdienter Handelfer in der 94. Minute. 😉

#nurderSCF

🗓️ This year, we came up with new merchandise: the 2026 Friendly DuckDB calendar, which has a SQL feature for every month along with art inspired by the feature.

⬇️ If you were lucky to get one at our events, that's great! :) If not, you can still grab the PDF at blobs.duckdb.org/merch/duckdb...

🌏 We are happy to announce the first DuckCon in the APAC region: DuckCon #7 will take place in the National Gallery Singapore on 2026-05-05.

🗳️ Registration and the Call for Talks are open! Submit your proposals until 2026-03-18.

➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...

🏗️ The DuckDB team is working hard on delivering DuckDB v1.5.

🌃 While the official release is next week, you can already give it a quick test using the nightly builds available at duckdb.org/install/prev...

If you encounter any issues, let us know! 🐛💬

Rust Engineer DuckDB Labs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam.

📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...

Am Morgen nach dem Pokal-¼-Finale in Berlin: „Schöner Schal, Arschloch.“

(Um das festzuhalten: so gut wie alle Hertha-Fans waren absolut freundlich und rundherum Spitzenklasse.)

#nurderscf

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The ArrayCast is back and now it's broadcast live! Join Conor Hoekstra, Adám Brudzewsky, and guests. The next episode, "FIXAPL with Jacob Lockwood", will take place on Monday 16 February at 15:00 UTC – see www.youtube.com/@arraycast/ #APL #ArrayProgramming #ArrayCast

Manche haben auch nur Glück.

This is fabulous! Happy Birthday, CWI! Keep on quacking, DuckDB! 😃

🎞️ The slide decks and talk recordings of last Friday's developer meeting are out! duckdb.org/events/2026/...

Nur der SCF! #scf

📆 The DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam starts tomorrow! We'll have a deep-dive extension development workshop in the morning and four exciting talks in the afternoon.

🎟️ Last chance to register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...

Absolut irrelevant. Punkt.

Please help us publicize TEAL: Tools for Educational Activities in Logic, a workshop associated w/ FLoC26. We have a novel design, focused on demos, discussion, and generally high-quality interaction rather than weak papers. See full details on our site!
teal.cs.brown.edu/floc2026/

We are going to hold the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in two weeks in Amsterdam! On the day of the meeting, DuckDB Community Extensions development champion Rusty Conover will also give a workshop on DuckDB extension development.

Check out the programme and sign up at duckdb.org/events/2026/...

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!

The second derivative of smile is indifference.

Ich werfe eine knuffige Blasenentzündung in den Topf… 😳

I voted/hummed in favor of your posting, Shriram. Happy holidays! 😊

Hummmm…