# MotherDuck Documentation - Migrate your data warehouse

> Plan a warehouse migration to MotherDuck, from inventorying what you run today to validating and cutting over one workload at a time.

Generated: 2026-10-21

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`. For the complete agent guidance (account setup, Admin REST API specification, and routing between contexts), 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 Migrate your data warehouse context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/llms-full.txt) (7 pages; 111,630 bytes; ~27,907 tokens).

## Child contexts

- [Migrate from Snowflake full context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-snowflake/llms-full.txt): Plan and run a migration from Snowflake to MotherDuck, from inventorying what you run today to validating and cutting over one workload at a time. (2 pages; 27,544 bytes; ~6,885 tokens). [Index](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-snowflake/llms.txt).
- [Migrate from BigQuery full context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-bigquery/llms-full.txt): Plan and run a migration from BigQuery to MotherDuck, from inventorying projects with INFORMATION_SCHEMA to translating GoogleSQL and cutting over. (2 pages; 36,308 bytes; ~9,077 tokens). [Index](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-bigquery/llms.txt).
- [Migrate from Redshift full context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-redshift/llms-full.txt): Plan and run a migration from Amazon Redshift to MotherDuck, from inventorying a cluster with system views to translating Redshift SQL and cutting over. (2 pages; 35,348 bytes; ~8,837 tokens). [Index](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-redshift/llms.txt).

## Direct pages

- [Migrate your data warehouse](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse): Plan a warehouse migration to MotherDuck, from inventorying what you run today to validating and cutting over one workload at a time.