# From Your Local Machine
> Moving data from local to MotherDuck through the UI or programmatically.
## Single file

### CLI

Using the CLI, you can connect to MotherDuck, create a database, and load a single local file (JSON, Parquet, CSV, etc.) to a MotherDuck table.

First, connect to MotherDuck using the `ATTACH` command.

```sql
ATTACH 'md:';
```

Create a cloud database (or point to any existing one) and load a local file into a table.

```sql
CREATE DATABASE test01;
USE test01;
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE orders as SELECT * from 'orders.csv';
```

### UI

In the MotherDuck UI, you can add JSON, CSV or Parquet file directly using the **Add data** button in the top left of the UI.
See the [Getting Started Tutorial](../../../getting-started/e2e-tutorial/part-2#loading-your-data) for details.

## Multiple files or database

To upload multiple files at once, or data in other formats supported by DuckDB, you can use the DuckDB CLI or any other supported [DuckDB client](https://duckdb.org/docs/data/multiple_files/overview.html).

### CLI

If your all your files reside from a single table, you can use the [glob syntax to load all files into a single table](https://duckdb.org/docs/data/multiple_files/overview.html).

For example, to load all CSV files from a directory into a single table, you can use the following SQL command:

```sql
ATTACH 'md:';
CREATE DATABASE test01;
USE test01;
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE orders as SELECT * from 'dir/*.csv';
```

If your files are in different formats or you want to load them into different tables, you can first load the files into different tables in a local DuckDB database and then copy the entire database into MotherDuck.

To copy the entire local DuckDB database into MotherDuck, you can use the following SQL commands:

```sql
ATTACH 'md:';
```

```sql
ATTACH 'local.ddb';
CREATE DATABASE cloud_db from 'local.ddb';
```


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