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It probably is, but you can do that workflow with DuckDB too. It's just really flexible since it can all be done in SQL. Check out the DuckDB postgres connection (https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/postgres.html)

To import from a Salesforce Bulk Export CSV (for example) into a postgres table is a few lines of SQL

``` INSERT INTO pgdb.accounts ( id, created_at, updated_at ) SELECT "Id", "CreatedDate"::TIMESTAMP, "UpdatedDate"::TIMESTAMP FROM read_csv('/path/to/file.csv') WHERE "Id" NOT IN (SELECT id FROM pgdb.accounts) ```

The path can be in a cloud storage provider as well, which is really nice. You can do updates which join from the postgres db or the other CSV files (or a MySQL database) as well. The data transforms (casting to timestamp, uuid, etc.) have been super handy along with all the other SQL niceties that you get



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