This hands-on workshop in English is for everyone looking for a free, fast and simple to use database for analysing large amounts of data.  Paraphrasing from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDB):

...DuckDB (https://duckdb.org) is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) originally developed by Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands and first released in 2019.... The project has over 6 million downloads per month...  DuckDB is used at Facebook, Google, and Airbnb...

The followings will be covered:

- What is DuckDB?

- Why DuckDB?

- Using DuckDB via the command line interface (CLI)

- Using DuckDB via graphical user interfaces (GUI)

- Using DuckDB via the Structured Query Language (SQL)

- Using DuckDB via the Python programming language

- Comparing DuckDB with Apache Spark/Databricks

- Scaling DuckDB with MotherDuck

- Artificial intelligence (AI) use cases

Seats are limited to 15!  Sign up for free by clicking on the link at "Happening at" above or at www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-duckdb-a-free-fast-and-simple-to-use-database-tickets-1029790470017.  Note that the time of the day indicated above is in Central European Summer Time (CEST) or UTC+2.

Information on preparation needed BEFORE the workshop will be posted on Hands-on DuckDB - a fast, free and simple to use database 1 week in advance.  Link to the online workshop will be provided 3 hours before the event in Eventbrite.  Please feel very free to write to chris.codeweek@proton.me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions in the meantime!

A bit about me:  my name is Chris and I have been working in the information technology (IT) industry for over 30 years around the world.  I am currently located in Germany and have been conducting hands-on workshops during EU Code Week since 2019.