Analyze Multi-GB CSV & Parquet Files in Seconds Locally with Open-Source DuckDB + AI
Excel freezes at 1 million rows and cloud tools reject 3GB files. Use open-source in-process OLAP engine DuckDB with AI-generated SQL to query massive local CSV, JSON and Parquet files in milliseconds.
Excel hard-caps at 1,048,576 rows and chokes on VLOOKUPs far earlier. DuckDB runs vectorized columnar SQL directly over raw CSV/Parquet files on your laptop in seconds.
Step-by-Step Action Checklist
0 / 4 CompletedI have a multi-gigabyte local dataset (`sales_2026_*.csv`) that crashes Excel, and I am querying it locally with open-source **DuckDB**. Here are the column headers and 3 sample rows: [Paste headers & 3 sample rows] Write a DuckDB SQL script that: 1) Safely parses messy strings, currency symbols and timestamps using `read_csv(..., ignore_errors=true)`; 2) Uses DuckDB-native ergonomics (`GROUP BY ALL`, `PIVOT`, `QUALIFY` window functions) to calculate: [your analytical question]; 3) Exports the final summary table to `result_summary.csv`.