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SQL vs Pandas vs Excel — 18 Problems, Solved Three Ways

The same 18 business questions answered in SQL, pandas and Excel side by side on one dataset. SQL ran on DuckDB, pandas on 3.0, and the results match.

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3 November 2026
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