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		hobs on March 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now It's metadata, so comparing how good a count(*) is is pretty pointless.

rcarmo on March 16, 2024 | [–]

Especially since SQLite would give a near-instant reply if there was an index in the table. The entire example is wrongly reasoned from start to finish.

petters on March 19, 2024 | [–]

I agree that the article is not very good

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