Cookbook
Practical recipes for common FineType workflows — copy, paste, and adapt.
Short, self-contained recipes for real tasks. Each one starts with a goal, walks through the steps, and finishes with something working.
Recipes
| Recipe | What you'll do |
|---|---|
| Profile a Parquet File | Extract a sample from Parquet and profile it with FineType — via CSV export or the DuckDB extension |
| Build a Typed DuckDB Pipeline | Go from raw CSV to a fully typed DuckDB database: profile, generate SQL, load, and query |
| Validate a Data Delivery | Save a schema from a known-good batch and validate new deliveries against it |
Before you start
Every recipe assumes you have FineType and DuckDB installed. If you haven't set those up yet, follow the Getting Started guide first.
See also
- CLI Reference — flags, defaults, and output formats for every command
- DuckDB Extension — using FineType directly inside SQL queries
- Type Registry — browse the 250 semantic types FineType detects