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2026/04/03 - Jordan Tigani
Consulting the Oracle: Claude on the Future of Data
What does AI think its own impact will be on the data and analytics industry? I asked Claude to share its predictions on the Modern Data Stack, data jobs, and the future of analytics.
2026/04/02 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer
Embedded Dives: Interactive Data Apps for Customer-Facing Analytics
Real-time, interactive data apps – now embedded anywhere in your application. Created by your favorite agents and powered by dual execution.
2026/03/31 - Louisa Huang, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Garrett O'Brien
MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres
MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets you query your data warehouse using any PostgreSQL-compatible client, driver, or BI tool — no new dependencies needed.
2026/03/27 - Simon Späti
Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman
Mark Freeman, Head of DevRel at Gable, shares his Spec-Driven Development workflow for producing high-quality, reproducible AI outcomes using Claude Code, ExcaliDraw diagrams, JSON schemas, and agent teams with tmux.
2026/03/25 - Ryan Boyd, Mehdi Ouazza
The Dive Gallery Is Live: Share Your Interactive Data Apps With the World
Share interactive, AI-built data apps with anyone through a unique link — queries run live on MotherDuck compute.
2026/03/24 - Alex Monahan
Don't Fear the Agents - AI on the Data Lakehouse
Learn how MotherDuck's Hosted DuckLake combines lakehouse scale (borrowing the best ideas from Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake) with low latency and agent sandbox isolation, making it the simplest data lakehouse for AI-powered agentic workflows.
2026/03/23 - Jordan Tigani
Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
If the Modern Data Stack isn't yet dead, it's at least incredibly sleepy. AI is bringing the "long run" closer than ever — here's what might come next for ETL, BI, data warehouses, and the role of data engineers.
2026/03/19 - Garrett O'Brien
Claudeception: Inside the Mind of an Analytics Agent
More tool calls, more schema exploration, more verification — does it help, or hurt? We dug into the chain-of-thought traces behind one of the hardest text-to-SQL benchmarks to understand how analytics agents actually think.
2026/03/13 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – March 2026
SQL Transpilers, VS Code Extensions, Dives and more
2026/03/09 - Alex Monahan
DuckDB 1.5 Features I am Excited About
DuckDB 1.5 is both faster and easier to use! JSON analysis can be up to 100x faster thanks to the VARIANT type and JSON shredding. Real-world queries are faster, including both basic and complex queries. Writes to Azure are supported, and checkpoint concurrency is dramatically improved.
2026/03/06 - Mehdi Ouazza
What is MCP? A Data Person's Guide to Agentic Analytics
MCP explained for data people: what it is, how it works, and how to connect your AI agent to your databases and tools
2026/03/05 - Garrett O'Brien, Louisa Huang
Dashboards as Code : CI/CD For MotherDuck Dives
Local development, version control, and automated CI/CD deployments for MotherDuck Dives — composable data visualizations that are just code.
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.
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
Microbatch support in dbt-duckdb lets you process large tables in time-based batches — making incremental models recoverable, backfillable, and parallelizable without rebuilding from scratch.
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+
2025/12/17 - Jordan Tigani
Building an answering machine
Discover how MotherDuck's MCP server enables true self-service analytics through AI agents. Query data in plain English with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini—no SQL required.
2025/12/16 - Garrett O'Brien, Jacob Matson
MotherDuck Integrates with PlanetScale Postgres
Run analytics 200x faster on PlanetScale Postgres with MotherDuck integration. Keep millisecond transactions while pushing analytical queries to serverless compute.
2025/12/12 - Jacob Matson
Calling All SQL Sleuths: The Christmas Heist Awaits
Christmas presents have vanished! Use your SQL skills to solve the mystery on DBQuacks and win prizes. 15 challenges. One leaderboard.
2025/12/11 - Garrett O'Brien
Streaming Pipelines with MotherDuck and Artie
CDC streaming takes flight with Artie’s new MotherDuck destination.
