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
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
2025-11-19
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
2025-11-05
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
2025-09-24
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
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
2025-04-23
Instant SQL Mode - Real Time Feedback to Make SQL Data Exploration Fly
Hamilton Ulmer shares insights from MotherDuck's Instant SQL Mode, exploring how real-time query result previews eliminate the traditional write-run-debug cycle through client-side parsing and DuckDB-WASM caching.
SQL
Talk
MotherDuck Features
24:06
2025-03-13
DuckDB: Run dbt build with sub-second execution times
Whether you're new to DuckDB or looking to optimize your workflows, this session will provide practical insights to help you leverage its full potential.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
dbt
MotherDuck Features
0:33:54
2024-07-11
What's new in DuckDB & MotherDuck 🦆
Join Mehdi Ouazza for a fun session to discuss all the new things in DuckDB and MotherDuck as of July 2024. He's flying solo this time for a special episode; he will quack but code too, so get ready!
YouTube
Quack & Code
MotherDuck Features
1:08:11
2024-06-28
Bringing DuckDB to the Cloud: Dual Execution Explained
Stephanie, founding engineer at MotherDuck, talks about what it takes to put a database in the cloud, specifically DuckDB as MotherDuck. Mehdi and Steph explain dual execution, showing how it works and use cases for the technology.
YouTube
Quack & Code
MotherDuck Features
0:41:41
2024-06-19
Getting Started with MotherDuck Webinar
MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd and Produck Expert Nathaniel Thompson provide an overview on MotherDuck, featuring DuckDB analyst ergonomics, Column Explorer, Fixit, Tableau visualization, Python data analysis, Wasm and more.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
0:03:35
2024-06-12
MotherDuck GA Produck Tour
Produck expert Nathaniel Thompson gives an overview of the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse and then takes you on a tour of executing queries, data profiling with Column Explorer, FixIt AI-powered query correction, dual query execution ++
YouTube
MotherDuck Features
