A DuckDB Database with No Data in It

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 07 Oct, 00:00 UTC

A DuckDB database file does not have to hold any data. It can store nothing but view definitions that point at Parquet files on object storage, so a few hundred kilobytes behave like a shared catalog over a whole data lake. This post shows how to build one, host it, and attach it read-only.