# MotherDuck Documentation - Migrate from BigQuery

> Plan and run a migration from BigQuery to MotherDuck, from inventorying projects with INFORMATION_SCHEMA to translating GoogleSQL and cutting over.

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.

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## Context files

- [Root documentation index](https://motherduck.com/docs/llms.txt): All top-level MotherDuck documentation contexts.
- [Full Migrate from BigQuery context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-bigquery/llms-full.txt) (2 pages; 36,308 bytes; ~9,077 tokens).

## Direct pages

- [Migrate from BigQuery](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-bigquery): Plan and run a migration from BigQuery to MotherDuck, from inventorying projects with INFORMATION_SCHEMA to translating GoogleSQL and cutting over.
- [Tune a migrated BigQuery workload](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-bigquery/tuning-a-migrated-bigquery-workload): Fix the query and dbt patterns that run on MotherDuck but run badly after a direct port from BigQuery, from nested GA4 fields to sharded tables to dbt threads.