https://site.fredlab.dev/tags/duckdb/Recent content in Duckdb on FredHugoenCopyright (c) 2020-2024 ThuliteFri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Excel is not a document — it’s a data source wearing a document’s clothes. Here is how Fred rebuilds the structure of a workbook deterministically, hands the agent a global map plus queryable tables, and adds a server-side value locator that collapses a dozen blind queries into a single targeted one.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/tabular-data-in-fred-rebac-scoped-parquet-s3-and-duckdb/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/tabular-data-in-fred-rebac-scoped-parquet-s3-and-duckdb/Fred now treats tabular data like the rest of the corpus: document-scoped, team-aware, and authorization-first. This post explains why the old SQL-store model was limiting, how the new Parquet plus DuckDB runtime works, and what this changes for security, performance, and operations.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-csv-to-agent-tabular-data-gets-smart-in-fred/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-csv-to-agent-tabular-data-gets-smart-in-fred/Fred now supports agentic access to tabular data like CSV and Excel through a new DuckDB-based backend and the Tessa agent. Explore how this works and what it unlocks.