DuckDB Bag of Tricks: Reading JSON, Data Type Detection, and Query Performance

DuckDB bag of tricks is the banner I use on this blog to post my tips and tricks about DuckDB . This post is about a particular challenge posted on the DuckDB Discord server which happened to interest me. So, here goes!! Yesterday on the DuckDB discord server user @col_montium asked : I've got a bit of a head scratcher. My json from https://api.census.gov/data/2000/dec/sf1/variables.json is a…