Ducktober is here - 8 launches in 8 daysSee what's live
Jul 20, 2026 · Ryan Boyd
Data Outpost is a new conference for data and AI builders, coming to San Francisco November 4-5, 2026. The next evolution of Small Data SF: two days of workshops, talks, and real time with the people building the data layer AI depends on.
1:02:00
May 7, 2026
Watch how an AE and a marketer use AI to analyze their own business data without writing SQL or waiting on a data team.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Tutorial
Mar 25, 2026 · Ryan Boyd, Mehdi Ouazza
Share interactive, AI-built data apps with anyone through a unique link — queries run live on MotherDuck compute.
1:00:14
Mar 11, 2026
Learn how to build a conversational AI chatbot for your SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server, with scoped data access and streaming responses.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Tutorial
MotherDuck Features
59:39
Jan 16, 2026
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
Dec 19, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
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.
Nov 19, 2025
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
Oct 23, 2025
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
Sep 18, 2025
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
Jul 17, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
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!
Jul 17, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
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!
Jul 1, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
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.
May 17, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
How to ingest and query CSV files in DuckDB using auto-detection, sniffing, manual configuration and more.
Apr 16, 2025 · Ryan Boyd
aka What the duck is a Duckling?
Oct 31, 2024 · Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd
Learn DuckDB from scratch: install in 2 minutes, set up VSCode, and build your first SQL analytics project. No database experience required.
Jul 16, 2024 · Ryan Boyd
Bring the Flock Together!
0:41:41
Jun 19, 2024
MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd and Produck Expert Nathaniel Thompson provide an overview on MotherDuck, featuring DuckDB analyst ergonomics, Column Explorer, Fixit, Tableau visualization, Python data analysis, Wasm and more.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
Jun 8, 2024 · Ryan Boyd
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
Apr 5, 2024
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
Mar 20, 2024
Cube and MotherDuck talk about the MDCuRe stack for building data apps: MotherDuck, Cube, React.
Ecosystem
Webinar
Mar 1, 2024 · Ryan Boyd
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.
Jan 30, 2024 · Ryan Boyd
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.
Nov 28, 2023 · Ryan Boyd
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.
Sep 20, 2023 · Ryan Boyd
MotherDuck Now Open for All and closes Series B
Jan 31, 2023 · Ryan Boyd
Using the Python Faker library to generate data for exploring DuckDB
Jan 24, 2023 · Ryan Boyd
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.
Jan 2, 2023 · Ryan Boyd
MotherDuck on Podcasts, in the News and at conferences.
Nov 11, 2022 · Tino Tereshko, Ryan Boyd
Fast aggregations, excellent SQL support, runs anywhere, provides simplified data access: cloud and local, works with your tools and frameworks.
