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- MotherDuck extends cloud coverage to Europe: MotherDuck is now available on AWS in Frankfurt eu-central-1 ...

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- MotherDuck extends cloud coverage to Europe: MotherDuck is now available on AWS in Frankfurt eu-central-1 ; users are able to create new Organizations in Europe for lower latency and regional data residency Expanded AI functions support for PROMPT() : The prompt function now supports additional parameters; MotherDuck users can now interact with Large...

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Test scheduled functions in Netlify dashboard

Now you can manually test scheduled functions through your Netlify dashboard. You can even manually invoke scheduled functions in different contexts where they may not be invoked automatically, such as Deploy Previews. Netlify project dashboard showing a "Run now" button

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Revert agent run in a task

Now you can revert to a previous agent run session within an Agent Runners task. This allows you to quickly dismiss changes from a new agent run session within the same task.

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- DuckDB 1.4.2: MotherDuck supports DuckDB 1.4.2, a bugfix release

- DuckDB 1.4.2: MotherDuck supports DuckDB 1.4.2, a bugfix release. Learn more in the official DuckDB Labs 1.4.2 announcement and changelog . Full command menu now at Cmd/Ctrl+K : Access common MotherDuck UI actions from your keyboard, including generating query edits, adding notebook cells, creating notebooks, and navigating between pages.

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Performance improvements

- Sorting is 2x+ faster: Complete rewrite of sorting uses less memory and scales better across threads for ORDER BY, window functions, and list sorting More efficient small writes: Appending small numbers of rows now writes far fewer bytes 5x faster checkpointing: Reuses table metadata when tables aren't altered during checkpoint Parallel connection...

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SQL syntax updates

- MERGE INTO statement: Standard SQL upserts without requiring primary keys or indexes FILL() window function: Interpolate missing values in ordered data Python-style macro arguments: Macros accept positional or named arguments for any parameter STRUCT to MAP cast: Direct casting between struct and map types

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Parquet improvements

- VARIANT type reading: Read Parquet VARIANT types for faster semi-structured data processing Native geometry type writes: Write native Parquet geometry types Auto-globbing for directories: Automatically treats paths as directories and retries with glob patterns when no file is found Learn more in the official DuckDB Labs announcements for 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 .

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[Preview] DuckLake 0.3

As we announced earlier this year, MotherDuck now supports DuckLake , an integrated data lake and catalog format. DuckLake 0.3 makes working with DuckLake more robust, including CHECKPOINT for easy maintenance , new paths for Iceberg interoperability, spatial geometry types , and MERGE INTO support .

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