23 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS
59:39
2026-01-16
Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics
MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.
AI, ML and LLMs
2025/12/19 - Ryan Boyd
Stop Paying the Complexity Tax
My personal reflections from watching Jordan Tigani’s keynote "The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" at Small Data SF. Most data warehouses are overbuilt for scale you'll never need. Learn how to stop paying the complexity tax.
2025-11-19
LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics
LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Talk
Python
BI & Visualization
60:00
2025-10-23
Can DuckDB replace your data stack?
MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
2025-09-18
Ducks on a Lake: Scaling Data Lakes to Warehouse Performance
Explore DuckLake, a new open table format from DuckDB's creators, designed to bring warehouse-grade performance and metadata control to data lakes.
Talk
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
Ingestion
2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd
Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up
New MotherDuck instance sizes allow data warehousing users more flexibility for complex queries and transformations. Need more compute to scale up? Megas and Gigas will help!
2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd
Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced
Conference with two days of practical innovation on data and AI: workshops and talks from industry leaders, including Benn Stancil, Joe Reis, Adi Polak, George Fraser, Jordan Tigani, Holden Karau, Ravin Kumar, Sam Alexander and more!
2025/07/01 - Ryan Boyd
MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes
Preview support of MotherDuck includes both fully-managed DuckLake support and ability to bring your own bucket. Combined with MotherDuck's storage, you get both high-speed access to recent data and support for massive scale historical data.
2025/05/17 - Ryan Boyd
Taming Wild CSVs: Advanced DuckDB Techniques for Data Engineers
How to ingest and query CSV files in DuckDB using auto-detection, sniffing, manual configuration and more.
2025/04/16 - Ryan Boyd
How MotherDuck Scales DuckDB in the Cloud vertically and horizontally
aka What the duck is a Duckling?
2024/10/31 - Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd
DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners
Learn DuckDB from scratch: install in 2 minutes, set up VSCode, and build your first SQL analytics project. No database experience required.
2024/07/16 - Ryan Boyd
New Collaboration Features: Org-level sharing and Auto-Join
Bring the Flock Together!
2024/06/08 - Ryan Boyd
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024
DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly. Crunchy Bridge adds DuckDB analytics to PostgreSQL. RAG implementations.
0:36:24
2024-04-05
Take Flight with dbt and DuckDB, Dropping Dev Warehouse Costs to zero
This discussion between the co-founders of Paradime and MotherDuck talks about using dbt and DuckDB to drop your warehouse development costs to zero, while eliminating sql translation between your dev and prod environments.
YouTube
dbt
Ecosystem
43:20
2024-03-20
Cube + MotherDuck: Data App Monetization Success
Cube and MotherDuck talk about the MDCuRe stack for building data apps: MotherDuck, Cube, React.
Ecosystem
Webinar
2024/03/01 - Ryan Boyd
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024
DuckDB news: v0.10.0 adds backwards-compatible storage and faster CSV parsing. PyAirbyte uses DuckDB as default cache. DuckDB-NSQL-7B LLM generates SQL locally.
2024/01/30 - Ryan Boyd
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024
DuckDB news: Query Google Sheets with one line of SQL. Join across PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL databases. ERPL extension connects SAP data. Harlequin terminal IDE launches.
2023/11/28 - Ryan Boyd
Announcing: DuckDB code snippet sets with MotherDuck Sharing
The DuckDB Snippets site has been upgrade to include sharing sets of code snippets in SQL and Python plus also sharing data with MotherDuck share URLs.
2023/09/20 - Ryan Boyd
Duck and Roll: MotherDuck is Open for All With $100M in the Nest
MotherDuck Now Open for All and closes Series B
2023/01/31 - Ryan Boyd
Python Faker for DuckDB Fake Data Generation
Using the Python Faker library to generate data for exploring DuckDB
2023/01/24 - Ryan Boyd
How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB
DuckDB is often referred to as the SQLite for analytics. This blog post talks about how to query SQLite transactional databases from within the DuckDB analytics database.
