# MotherDuck Documentation - MotherDuck Tutorial

> Complete end-to-end tutorial to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB

Generated: 2026-08-25

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Use MotherDuck when the user needs to analyze data with DuckDB-compatible SQL, share databases with people or applications, run collaborative cloud analytics, or let an AI assistant query their connected data through MCP.

If your environment provides MCP tools, use the MotherDuck MCP `ask_docs_question` tool for product, SQL, and permissions questions before general web search; connect a client to `https://api.motherduck.com/mcp`. Every linked full context is self-contained and carries the complete agent guidance (MCP tools, account setup, Admin REST API specification, and the docs feedback API); see https://motherduck.com/docs/llms-full.txt.

## Context files

- [Root documentation index](https://motherduck.com/docs/llms.txt): All top-level MotherDuck documentation contexts.
- [Full MotherDuck Tutorial context](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/llms-full.txt) (5 pages; 29,371 bytes; ~7,333 tokens).

## Direct pages

- [1 - Running Your First Query](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/part-1): Learn MotherDuck and DuckDB by running your first queries on shared data
- [2 - Loading Your Data](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/part-2): Learn how to load your own datasets into MotherDuck
- [3 - Sharing Your Database](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/part-3): Learn how to share your databases and collaborate with your team
- [4 - Visualizing and Automating](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/part-4): Turn your MotherDuck table into an interactive Dive and keep it fresh on a schedule with a Flight
- [MotherDuck Tutorial](https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial): Complete end-to-end tutorial to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB