Videos and Online Events
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
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
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
2025-09-10
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
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
2025-06-05
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
2025-05-28
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
2025-05-13
Faster Data Pipelines development with MCP and DuckDB
Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) accelerates data pipeline development with AI tools, DuckDB, and MotherDuck, streamlining schema discovery and code generation for data engineers.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-04-23
What If SQL Queries Returned Results Instantly?
With Instant SQL, the MotherDuck UI revolutionizes SQL development with instant query results, real-time debugging, and faster iteration—eliminating decades of delays for modern data professionals.
YouTube
2025-04-10
4 Lightning Talks on Practical AI Workflows from Notion, 1Password, MotherDuck & Evidence
Learn how data teams at MotherDuck, Notion, 1Password, and Evidence use AI tools to automate workflows, enrich data, speed up BI development, and enhance documentation.
YouTube
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
2025-02-21
DuckDB & MotherDuck for Beginners: Your Ultimate Guide
Mehdi revisits the basics in this 35-minute video, covering everything you need to know about DuckDB and MotherDuck.
YouTube
2025-02-10
From Core to Custom: Unlocking new possibilities with DuckDB Extensions
Learn how DuckDB extensions—both core and community—expand database capabilities, streamline workflows, and empower developers to easily create, install, and share powerful new features.
YouTube
2025-01-21
Where Data Science Meets Shrek: How BuzzFeed uses AI
Discover how BuzzFeed uses AI and embeddings to power creative content, viral experiments, interactive image generators, and data-driven headline optimization, blending human creativity with cutting-edge technology.
YouTube
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
16:37
2024-11-22
Can DuckDB revolutionize the data lake experience?
Mehdi explores DuckDB as a catalog for Data Lake and Lakehouse pattern. He'll define what we mean by "data catalog", gives clear examples on how they work and dive into a pragmatic use case with DuckDB & MotherDuck.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Sources
17:03
2024-11-17
Is BI Too Big for Small Data?
BI tools promise deep insights, but most teams only get noise. Discover why the classic data story fails and how a new small-data playbook can help you find real meaning in your metrics.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
25:18
2024-11-15
Big Data is Dead: Long Live Hot Data 🔥
Over the last decade, Big Data was everywhere. Let's set the record straight on what is and isn't Big Data. We have been consumed by a conversation about data volumes when we should focus more on the immediate task at hand.
Talk
YouTube
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
59:07
2024-10-24
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a compelling alternative that could change how companies handle data.
YouTube
Interview
29:54
2024-10-23
Machine learning and AI at MotherDuck
MotherDuck's Till Döhmen talks at DuckDB Meetup #1 Amsterdam about all the clever ways the AI team is extending SQL to include AI features.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
Meetup
Talk
40:09
2024-10-14
Duckfooding at MotherDuck
In this talk at our MotherDuck NYC meetup [warning: bad sound], Nicholas Ursa talked about the paradigm shift from distributed computing and the Big data era to MotherDuck. He then explains how we build our internal data warehouse.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
1:00:53
2024-09-24
A new paradigm for data visualization with just SQL + Markdown
Come to this Quack&Code where Mehdi will discuss data visualization with DuckDB/MotherDuck, specifically focusing on Evidence! Archie, who is building evidence.dev, will join us to share his wisdom on charts ;-)
BI & Visualization
YouTube
Quack & Code
2024-09-24
An Evolving DAG for the LLM world - Julia Schottenstein of LangChain at Small Data SF 2024
Learn how LangChain enables developers to build powerful agentic systems, evolving from simple chains to dynamic, context-aware agents for real-world AI applications.
YouTube
2024-09-24
Build Bigger With Small Ai: Running Small Models Locally
Discover how small AI models run locally for fast, private, and cost-efficient development. Learn about Ollama, Retrieval Augmented Generation, tool calling, and practical use cases.
YouTube
41:35
2024-09-19
What's New in Data: Small Data, Big Impact
John Kutay interviews MotherDuck's Jacob Matson about all things data including MotherDuck, DuckDB and more.
Interview
YouTube
14:49
2024-08-29
Is DuckDB the Secret to Unlocking Your GIS Potential?
In this video, Mehdi walks you through the basics of working with geospatial data and introduces the DuckDB spatial extension. By the end, you will create your own heatmap using DuckDB, Python, and MotherDuck for sharing and scalability.
YouTube
Tutorial
50:57
2024-08-21
Moving Forward from Ad Hoc Reports with DuckDB and MotherDuck
Learn about ad hoc reporting with DuckDB from experts Mehdi Ouazza and Jacob Matson, creator of the MDS-in-a-Box.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Quack & Code
27:49
2024-08-19
How to bootstrap a Data Warehouse with DuckDB
Guen Prawiroatmodjo, Software Engineer at MotherDuck, shares a talk at SciPy 2024 on how to bootstrap a data warehouse on your laptop using open source, including ETL, data pipelines, dashboard visualization, and sharing via the cloud.
YouTube
Talk
1:02:10
2024-07-24
Leveraging DuckDB and Delta Lake Together
Quack & Code on table formats and Delta Lake with Holly Smith from Databricks. Can you use DuckDB and MotherDuck to query your data lakehouse based on Delta Lake? Yes! And Delta Lake provides a better format than Parquet.
YouTube
Sources
Quack & Code
