DuckDB
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Add Code IDE Connection
You will be prompted to add a Development connection during the onboarding, or you can add more connections by following these steps:
Click Settings in the top menu bar of the Paradime interface to access Account Settings
In the left sidebar, click "Connections"
Click "Add New" next to the Code IDE section
Select "DuckDB"
Configuration for a DuckDB Connection
In the Development connection setup screen, you will need to fill in the form with the details of the connection you want to use to run dbt™️ models against a DuckDB database.
In this example we are connecting to s3
to read/write parquet
files using an AWS access key and secret, these secrets can be stored in the user environment variable settings.

Field Details
Below are list of fields and example to create a connection.
Profile Name
The profile name set in your dbt_project.yaml
. See more here.
dbt-duckdb
Profile Configuration
Here is where you can define the path to the DuckDB database where the dbt™️ will run.
Additionally you will be able to configure any supported DuckDB extensions by listing them in the
extensions
You can also set any additional DuckDB configuration options via the
settings
field, including options that are supported in any loaded extensions.
extensions:
- httpfs
- parquet
path: ./dbt.duckdb
settings:
s3_access_key_id: '{{ env_var("S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID") }}'
s3_region: '{{ env_var("S3_REGION", "us-west-1") }}'
s3_secret_access_key: '{{ env_var("S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY") }}'
Schema
The default schema used to build dbt™️ objects at runtime.
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Explore data in your DuckDB database from Paradime
Paradime integrates with Harlequin out of the box - no installation required. Check our integration guide on how you can query where you can query data directly from the Paradime Terminal.
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