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
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
24:42
2025-01-17
Using SQL in Your Data Lake with DuckDB, Iceberg, dbt, and MotherDuck
In this talk at our MotherDuck Seattle meetup, Jacob, developer advocate at MotherDuck, talked about why we should use more SQL and go hands-on with some practical examples of how to read from Iceberg using dbt, DuckDB, and MotherDuck.
dbt
Meetup
SQL
08:48
2024-12-11
Why web developers should care about analytical databases
You often start your web application with an OLTP database like Postgres, but should you crunch your analytics there? In this video, Mehdi explains what OLAP databases are, when to use them, and more.
YouTube
Wasm
SQL
33:49
2024-11-08
A duck in the hand is worth two in the cloud
What if I told you that you could complete a JSON parse and extract task on your laptop before a distributed compute cluster even finishes booting up?
YouTube
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
Python
Talk
14:18
2024-10-25
pg_duckdb: Postgres analytics just got faster with DuckDB
Postgres analytics 10x faster?! 🤯 pg_duckdb is here! This open-source extension adds DuckDB's analytics to Postgres, supporting Parquet, CSV, Iceberg reads, and direct MotherDuck queries—all within Postgres!
YouTube
Ingestion
SQL
Ecosystem
1:03:13
2024-06-13
Fixing SQL Spaghetti : Effective Refactoring Techniques
Lindsay Murphy and Mehdi tackle a big challenge for data professionals: dealing with old SQL scripts. How can we make messy SQL code easier to read and maintain? We'll discuss pragmatics things you can do, and we'll tackle an example.
YouTube
Quack & Code
SQL
1:05:37
2024-02-01
SQL IDE Safari : Harlequin, in your terminal.
Join Mehdi and Ted Conner to discuss SQL workflows and SQL IDEs! Ted built the amazing Harlequin SQL IDE which runs in your terminal!
YouTube
SQL
Quack & Code
0:00:47
2024-01-22
No SQL standard for 7 years ?!
This short of Mehdi with Alex Monahan discusses the lack of evolution of the SQL standard. “(SQL) stands for Structured Query Language, not Standard Query Language”
YouTube
Short
SQL
0:54:38
2024-01-05
Friendly SQL with DuckDB
Explore friendly and even friendlier SQL & DuckDB with Mehdi annd Alex Monahan! They discuss history, its future role in data and show some tips and tricks.
YouTube
SQL
Quack & Code
