Videos and Online Events
2026-01-27
Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook
Jacob and Jerel from MotherDuck showcase practical ways to optimize your data warehouse for AI-powered SQL generation. Through rigorous testing with the Bird benchmark, they demonstrate that text-to-SQL accuracy can jump from 30% to 74% by enriching your database with the right metadata.
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Stream
Tutorial
2026-01-21
The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics
Jacob and Alex from MotherDuck query data using the MotherDuck MCP. Watch as they analyze 180,000 rows of shipment data through conversational AI, uncovering late delivery patterns, profitability insights, and operational trends with no SQL required!
Stream
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
BI & Visualization
Tutorial
0:09:18
2026-01-21
No More Writing SQL for Quick Analysis
Learn how to use the MotherDuck MCP server with Claude to analyze data using natural language—no SQL required. This text-to-SQL tutorial shows how AI data analysis works with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting you query databases, Parquet files on S3, and even public APIs just by asking questions in plain English.
YouTube
Tutorial
AI
59:39
2026-01-16
Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics
MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-12-26
Building a Serverless Lakehouse with DuckLake
In this hands-on workshop, Jacob Matson walks through building a serverless lakehouse from scratch using DuckLake.
Webinar
Tutorial
2025-12-10
Watch Me Deploy a DuckLake to Production with MotherDuck!
In this video, Hoyt Emerson will show you the fastest way to get DuckLake into production using MotherDuck's beta implementation. If you've been following his DuckLake series, this is the next step you've been waiting for!
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Tutorial
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Ecosystem
2025-11-20
Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe
Learn how to turbocharge your Python data work using DuckDB and MotherDuck with Pandas. We walk through performance comparisons, exploratory data analysis on bigger datasets, and an end-to-end ML feature engineering pipeline.
Webinar
Python
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-11-19
LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics
LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Talk
Python
BI & Visualization
2025-11-14
Empowering Data Teams: Smarter AI Workflows with Hex & MotherDuck
AI isn't here to replace data work, it's here to make it better. Watch this webinar to see how Hex and MotherDuck build AI workflows that prioritize context, iteration, and real-world impact.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-11-05
The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares why we built our data warehouse for small data first, not big data. Learn about designing for the bottom left quadrant, hypertenancy, and why scale doesn't define importance.
Talk
MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
SQL
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-11-05
In the Long Run, Everything is a Fad
Benn Stancil uses Olympics gymnastics scoring to argue data's quantification obsession is generational. We went from vibes to math and may return to AI-powered vibes. Will dashboards matter to the next generation?
Talk
BI & Visualization
2025-10-31
Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks
Why do database benchmarks so often mislead? MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani discusses the pitfalls of performance benchmarking, lessons from BigQuery, and why your own workload is the only benchmark that truly matters.
Stream
Interview
2025-10-29
Duck Flavored BI: Building an Efficient Data Stack
Temptation to over-engineer your data stack is everywhere. Watch MotherDuck and Tasman Analytics for the antidote: a practical discussion of why companies try to overbuild and what they can do to resist the temptation.
Webinar
2025-10-27
Boosting Data Performance: Unlocking the Power of DuckDB in your Gold Layer
Watch this webinar with MotherDuck and Artefact for a discussion about how to achieve exceptional performance for gold layer analytics using DuckDB .
Webinar
60:00
2025-10-23
Can DuckDB replace your data stack?
MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
2025-10-15
Beyond BI: Building Data Apps and Customer-Facing Analytics
In this webinar, we compare classic BI dashboards with custom-built data apps built in Python and JavaScript. We'll also show how MotherDuck can power both data teams and software engineers to deliver analytics directly to users.
Webinar
2025-10-14
DuckLake: Making BIG DATA feel small (Coalesce 2025)
MotherDuck’s managed DuckLake data lakehouse blends the cost efficiency, scale, and openness of a lakehouse with the speed of a warehouse for truly joyful dbt pipelines. They will show you how!
Talk
2025-10-14
Simplifying the Transformation Layer
Explore the latest transformation layer architectures and real-world uses, plus how MotherDuck utilizes DuckDB for cloud-scale transformation.
Webinar
2025-09-25
From Raw Data to Insights with Datacoves & MotherDuck
In this webinar, we show how Datacoves and MotherDuck make it possible to connect directly to S3, build dbt models in DuckLake, and visualize the results without the heavy lift of traditional data stacks.
Webinar
dbt
2025-09-24
DuckDB At Scale
DuckDB is loved by SQL-ophiles for small data workloads. How do you make it scale? What happens when you feed it Big Data? What is DuckLake? This talk answers these questions from real-world experience running DuckDB in the cloud.
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Talk
BI & Visualization
Python
2025-09-18
Ducks on a Lake: Scaling Data Lakes to Warehouse Performance
Explore DuckLake, a new open table format from DuckDB's creators, designed to bring warehouse-grade performance and metadata control to data lakes.
Talk
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
Ingestion
2025-09-10
Building AI Applications That Need Analytics
Jordan Tigani explores how AI applications can leverage analytics databases to answer complex questions. LLMs struggle with calculations and private data. Enter "Hyper-Tenancy" for isolated cloud instances.
AI, ML and LLMs
Short
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Talk
2025-09-10
From Curiosity to Impact How DoSomething Democratized Data
Hear how DoSomething's data team escaped the enterprise data trap, achieving 20X cost reduction and transforming hours-long queries into seconds with MotherDuck.
YouTube
2025-07-26
How to Efficiently Load Data into DuckLake with Estuary
Learn how DuckLake, MotherDuck, and Estuary enable fast, real-time data integration and analytics with modern open table formats, cloud data warehousing, and no-code streaming pipelines.
YouTube
2025-07-18
Why Your Postgres Analytics Are So Slow (And 3 Ways to Fix It)
Learn why Postgres struggles with analytics and explore three top solutions—DuckDB extension, PG DuckDB, and CDC—for supercharging analytical queries and accelerating Postgres performance.
YouTube
2025-07-17
Why Your Postgres Analytics Are So Slow (And 3 Ways to Fix It)
Struggling with slow PostgreSQL analytics queries? @mehdio shows 3 proven methods to supercharge performance using DuckDB and MotherDuck. Perfect for GROUP BY aggregations taking 30+ seconds.
YouTube
2025-06-26
Getting Started With MotherDuck Hosted DuckLake
Watch this special edition of our Getting Started with MotherDuck webinar where we'll cover how to use DuckLake with MotherDuck.
Webinar
2025-06-17
What is DuckLake? A Simpler Data Lake & Warehouse with DuckDB
DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen joins MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani for an in-depth discussion about DuckLake, the new lakehouse format that's rethinking how we handle metadata and open table formats.
Interview
20:44
2025-06-13
What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? (PGConf.dev 2025)
DuckDB an open source SQL analytics engine that is quickly growing in popularity. This begs the question: What can Postgres learn from DuckDB?
YouTube
Ecosystem
Talk
2025-06-12
pg_duckdb: Ducking awesome analytics in Postgres
Supercharge your Postgres analytics! This talk shows how the pg_duckdb extension accelerates your slowest queries instantly, often with zero code changes. Learn practical tips and how to use remote columnar storage for even more speed.
Talk
Sources
46:26
2025-06-12
Escaping Catalog Hell: A Guide to Iceberg, DuckDB & the Data Lakehouse
Building a data stack means choosing between easy SaaS and complex open-source. Apache Iceberg is a middle ground, but its catalog is a hurdle. New tools now simplify using Iceberg with DuckDB to create a flexible, local data lakehouse.
MotherDuck Features
2025-06-05
Understanding DuckLake: A Table Format with a Modern Architecture
Discover how DuckLake revolutionizes data lake table formats by storing metadata in relational databases, enabling faster, scalable, and ACID-compliant analytics on object storage like S3.
YouTube
2025-06-02
Taming file zoos: Data science with DuckDB database files
Tame "file zoos" with DuckDB! This talk reveals how DuckDB seamlessly integrates with Python to read/write diverse files (CSV, Parquet), organize data efficiently, enable larger-than-memory analysis, and streamline your workflows.
Python
Talk
2025-05-28
Cultivating Growth: How Gardyn Scaled its Data Operations with MotherDuck
Discover how Gardyn transformed its data platform from MySQL to a modern stack, boosting analytics speed, scalability, and customer insights with MotherDuck, dbt, Dagster, Hex, and Hashboard.
YouTube
2025-05-21
Stay in Flow with MotherDuck's Instant SQL
Imagine writing SQL queries that give you instant visual feedback, transforming your entire data exploration experience. That's what Instant SQL enables with MotherDuck.
YouTube
2025-05-20
AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll
Discover how business intelligence is evolving from drag-and-drop tools to code-based, AI-powered workflows—leveraging LLMs, DuckDB, and local development for faster, more flexible analytics.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
BI & Visualization
