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2026/03/03 - Garrett O'Brien
Give Your Agents Write Access
The MotherDuck remote MCP server now supports write operations. Learn how zero-copy clones, snapshots, and hypertenancy make it safe to let agents build in your data warehouse.
2026/03/02 - Alex Monahan
Claude Code + Dives = Any data UI
Learn how to build custom interactive data visualizations using MotherDuck Dives and Claude Code. From setup to sharing, create refreshable React and SQL-powered visuals with natural language prompts.
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2026/02/25 - Jacob Matson
How I dive - Claude.ai Edition
Explore first, find the story, iterate on the artifact, test in MotherDuck. The workflow I keep coming back to after weeks of building.
2026/02/24 - Simon Späti
Git for Data Applied: Comparing Git-like Tools That Separate Metadata from Data
Comparing Git-like Tools That Separate Metadata from Data
2026/02/19 - Jordan Tigani
Duck, Dive, and Answer
AI is eating the data stack. Introducing Dives, a new MotherDuck feature that lets AI agents build shareable, real-time data visualizations with composable SQL.
2026/02/11 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – February 2026
MSSQL Extension, Vortex File Format & 2TB Memory Benchmarks
2026/02/06 - Jacob Matson
Does "AI-Ready Data" simply mean "Good Data Modeling"?
I ran 500 text-to-SQL questions against three frontier LLMs with zero context beyond the schema. 95% accuracy. No semantic layer required.
2026/02/05 - Simon Späti
Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck
Build a local-first RAG for your Obsidian notes using DuckDB's vector search, then deploy it as a serverless web app with MotherDuck
2026/02/04 - Sheila Sitaram, Joseph Hwang, Nicholas Greenspan
More Control, Less Hassle: Self-Serve Recovery with Point-in-Time Restore
MotherDuck now supports point-in-time restores, making it easier than ever to roll back changes, undrop databases, and debug pipelines.
2026/02/02 - Dumky de Wilde
Microbatch: how to supercharge dbt-duckdb with the right incremental model
2026/01/23 - Jacob Matson
SQL Golf: Lessons from Quackmas 2025
From #N column references to boolean math, explore the extreme techniques used to solve the Quackmas 2025 SQL Golf challenge.
2026/01/17 - Simon Späti
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2026
DuckDB news: Iceberg extension adds full DML (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Process 1TB in 30 seconds. Query data via AI agents with MCP server. TypeScript macros for APIs.
2025/12/29 - Hannah Rifkin
We Built Our Employees a Wrapped—Using SQL and MotherDuck
We built a Spotify-style "Wrapped" for MotherDuck employees using our own platform. Discover the SQL queries, data tricks, and fun personas behind our internal leaderboard.
2025/12/23 - Jacob Matson
What If We Don't Need the Semantic Layer?
What if AI could discover your business logic by mining query history instead of requiring manual metric definitions? Explore how LLMs are replacing static semantic layers with systems that learn from actual usage.
2025/12/22 - Carly Spoljaric, Jerel Navarrete
A Quack-Packed Fall
MotherDuck spent fall on the conference circuit across Europe and the US. Here's what we presented and the pattern that emerged in nearly every conversation about analytics.
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.
2025/12/18 - Till Döhmen
Building the MotherDuck Remote MCP Server: A Journey Through Context Engineering and OAuth Proxies
How MotherDuck built a production-ready remote MCP server—from OAuth proxy challenges with Auth0 to tool design patterns that help AI agents query data warehouses effectively. Includes lessons from a hackathon where agents ran 4,000+
