Is converting SQL dump file to DuckDB free?

Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.

Will my SQL dump file data keep its types in DuckDB?

Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real DuckDB types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.

Do you store my file?

No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.

Convert SQL dump file to DuckDB

Upload a .sql file and get back a DuckDB file. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.

1Upload your file

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CSV, Excel, SQLite, SQL, DBF (max 10 MB)

2Choose target format

How your data is typed in DuckDB

Generated from the converter's own DuckDB type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.

Your data	DuckDB type
Whole number	BIGINT
Decimal (money)	DECIMAL(10,2)
Floating point	DOUBLE
True / false	BOOLEAN
Date	DATE
Date and time	TIMESTAMP
Short text	VARCHAR
Long text	VARCHAR
Binary data	BLOB

Working from a SQL dump file

A dump is a schema and its data written out by a database's own export tool, in that tool's own flavour of SQL. Which flavour it is has to be established before a single line of it can be parsed correctly.

→The dialect is decided by scanning the first 5,000 characters for tell-tale syntax: AUTO_INCREMENT or ENGINE= means MySQL, SERIAL means PostgreSQL, IDENTITY( or NVARCHAR means SQL Server.
→If your dump opens with thousands of characters of comments and SET statements before the first CREATE TABLE, that scan has nothing to go on and falls back to MySQL. Trimming the preamble fixes it.
→Dump tools often gzip their output. A .sql.gz is not a recognised extension, so decompress it before uploading.

Decimals and text in the .duckdb file

DuckDB takes the source's declared types more nearly unchanged than any other target here, which makes the two places where it cannot the things worth reading: the width of a decimal, and the length of a string.

→DECIMAL tops out at 38 digits, so a wider source column is clamped rather than refused: an Oracle NUMBER(50,10) is created here as DECIMAL(38,10), and the scale is never allowed to grow past the precision holding it.
→A decimal that declared no scale gets six places for its fraction rather than none, inside that same rule: a source precision of 10 becomes DECIMAL(10,6), one of 5 becomes DECIMAL(5,5), and one that declared no precision either becomes DECIMAL(18,6).
→Strings become VARCHAR with no length attached to them. DuckDB's VARCHAR is unbounded, so no column has to be sized in advance and no row can be turned away for being longer than the column it goes in.

Reading SQL dump file

→Parsed with a real SQL parser, not regular expressions, so a value containing a closing parenthesis or a semicolon cannot split a row in half.
→CREATE TABLE types, primary keys, NOT NULL and AUTO_INCREMENT are all read from the dump.
→The source dialect is detected from the dump itself — MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server dumps all parse.

Writing DuckDB

→A real .duckdb file, not a script — open it straight away with the DuckDB CLI.
→DuckDB has genuine DECIMAL and BOOLEAN types, so nothing is flattened on the way in.

What you get

A ZIP containing database.duckdb. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.

Questions

Is converting SQL dump file to DuckDB free?: Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
Will my SQL dump file data keep its types in DuckDB?: Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real DuckDB types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
Do you store my file?: No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.