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Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced

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!

Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up

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!

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Teaching Your LLM About DuckDB the Right Way: How to Fix Outdated Documentation

2025/07/15 - Mehdi Ouazza

Teaching Your LLM About DuckDB the Right Way: How to Fix Outdated Documentation

Learn how to keep LLMs updated with llms.txt and Cursor's docs feature.

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2025

2025/07/08 - Simon Späti

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2025

DuckDB Monthly #31: Kafka Integration, Browser-Based Analytics, and Lake Format Innovations

The Data Engineer Toolkit: Infrastructure, DevOps, and Beyond

2025/07/03 - Simon Späti

The Data Engineer Toolkit: Infrastructure, DevOps, and Beyond

A comprehensive guide to advanced data engineering tools covering everything from SQL engines and orchestration platforms to DevOps, data quality, AI workflows, and the soft skills needed to build production-grade data platforms.

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes

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.

I Made Cursor + AI Write Perfect SQL. Here's the Exact Setup

2025/06/27 - Jacob Matson

I Made Cursor + AI Write Perfect SQL. Here's the Exact Setup

Stop debugging AI-generated SQL queries. Learn the exact Cursor + MotherDuck setup that makes AI write working SQL on the first try, with step-by-step instructions.

PostgreSQL and Ducks: The Perfect Analytical Pairing

2025/06/16 - Jacob Matson, Aditya Somani

PostgreSQL and Ducks: The Perfect Analytical Pairing

Learn how to integrate PostgreSQL with DuckDB and MotherDuck for faster analytics. Compare DuckDB Postgres Extension, pg_duckdb, and CDC approaches with practical examples and best practices for each method.

Getting Started with DuckLake: A New Table Format for Your Lakehouse

2025/06/09 - Mehdi Ouazza

Getting Started with DuckLake: A New Table Format for Your Lakehouse

Learn how DuckLake simplifies metadata and brings fast, database-like features to your data lakehouse — with a hands-on example using DuckDB and PostgreSQL

DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025

2025/06/06 - Simon Späti

DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025

DuckDB Monthly #30: DuckDB's new table format, Radio extension and more!

DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL

2025/06/01 - Sheila Sitaram

DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL

DuckDB 1.3 has launched, with performance boosts, faster Parquet reads and writes, and new SQL syntax for ducking awesome analytics with full support in MotherDuck. Read on for highlights from this major release.