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# Holly Smith

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Holly Smith is a Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks, with more than seven years at the company across solutions architecture and advocacy roles. She is a frequent speaker on data engineering and lakehouse architecture.

## 1 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[1:02:10](/videos/leveraging-duckdb-and-delta-lake-together/)[2024-07-24](/videos/leveraging-duckdb-and-delta-lake-together/)

### [Leveraging DuckDB and Delta Lake Together](/videos/leveraging-duckdb-and-delta-lake-together/)

Quack & Code on table formats and Delta Lake with Holly Smith from Databricks. Can you use DuckDB and MotherDuck to query your data lakehouse based on Delta Lake? Yes! And Delta Lake provides a better format than Parquet.

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