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
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
0:21:46
2024-06-27
DuckDB & dataviz | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (3/3)
In this part 3 of the project, @mehdio explores how to build a Dashboard with Evidence using MotherDuck/DuckDb as a data source.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Tutorial
0:00:55
2024-06-21
One data tool with all its dependencies: DuckDB and extensions
Learn about DuckDB extensions, including the ability to query data in your AWS S3-powered data lake.
YouTube
Short
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
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
0:35:26
2024-06-07
Why and How we integrated DuckDB & MotherDuck with GoodData
Learn from Jan Soubusta how GoodData integrated DuckDB & MotherDuck within their product! Many thanks to them for hosting this meetup in Prague on May 29th 2024.
YouTube
Ecosystem
1:07:10
2024-05-31
Boosting datasets discoverability for AI using DuckDB
Data is the foundation of any quality model, and discovering the right datasets is a crucial first step. In this Quack & Code session, Mehdi & Andrea Soria from HuggingFace show how to do just that.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
Quack & Code
1:14:57
2024-05-16
DuckDB & Iceberg : The Future of Lightweight Data Management
Join Brian Olsen from Tabular and Mehdi for a quack and code session exploring the world of table formats, with a special focus on Iceberg and DuckDB. They dive into the latest advancements and give a hands-on demonstration.
YouTube
Sources
Quack & Code
Ecosystem
0:57:21
2024-05-10
Ibis: One Library To Query Any Backend
Join Cody from Voltron Data and Mehdi to chat about the Ibis project! Ibis enables a single library to query many backends, including DuckDB, Snowflake, Spark, Polars and more.
YouTube
Ecosystem
0:58:06
2024-05-07
Why CSVs Still Matter: The Indispensable File Format
In this discussion with Mehdi Ouazza and Pedro Holanda from DuckDB, they talk about all things CSVs and dive into a pragmatic example of how the CSV parser works in DuckDB. Enjoy!
YouTube
Sources
2024-05-01
Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools
Watch Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) and Colin Zima (Omni) for a 🦆 quackingly 🦆 candid discussion about what the last generation of data tools got right and wrong, and why they both think they can build something even better this time.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Interview
0:01:25
2024-04-24
Building Data Apps with MotherDuck
Unlock high-speed data apps with the MotherDuck Wasm SDK, reducing your cloud computing costs and improving latency by running queries in your web browser. 1.5 tier architecture.
YouTube
Wasm
MotherDuck Features
0:52:48
2024-04-22
Local Dev, Cloud Prod with Dagster and MotherDuck
Develop locally and ship to production confidently with Dagster data pipelines, Evidence dashboards powered by DuckDB and Markdown, and the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
0:36:24
2024-04-05
Take Flight with dbt and DuckDB, Dropping Dev Warehouse Costs to zero
This discussion between the co-founders of Paradime and MotherDuck talks about using dbt and DuckDB to drop your warehouse development costs to zero, while eliminating sql translation between your dev and prod environments.
YouTube
dbt
Ecosystem
0:56:54
2024-03-28
Spatial data management with DuckDB ft. @MattForrest
Mehdi and his guest Matt Forrest quack and code - diving into Geo data with DuckDB and explore the spatial extension.
YouTube
Quack & Code
1:11:53
2024-03-15
DuckDB & Mosaic : Interactive Insights on Large datasets
Quack and Code with Dominik Moritz (Carnegie Mellon University / Apple) & Jeffrey Heer (University of Washington) - academics researching and developing data visualization tools used by thousands of people around the world!
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Wasm
0:37:25
2024-03-01
DuckDB & dbt | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (2/3)
@mehdio is taking you to part 2 of this end-to-end data engineering project series: transform data using dbt and DuckDB! You will be leveraging all the in-memory capabilities of DuckDB to smooth your development process and deployment to t
YouTube
Data Pipelines
dbt
Tutorial
Ecosystem
1:07:45
2024-02-29
DuckDB + dbt : Accelerating the developer experience with local power
Hands-on stream with Mehdi Ouazza and Josh Wills discussing how DuckDB can fix the data engineering workflow with dbt while using your local laptop compute power!
YouTube
Ecosystem
Quack & Code
0:21:59
2024-02-19
DuckDB and recommenders : a lightning fast synergy ft. Khalil Muhammad
Khalil Muhammad at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! He shows what DuckDB offers you to move quickly when building recommendation engines and optimizing data modeling for machine learning. Predict user preferences to profit!
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
Meetup
Talk
1:01:43
2024-02-15
DuckDB + Streamlit : Crafting Dynamic Dashboards and Data Apps
Want to create dynamic dashboards and data apps with your DuckDB data? Learn from Streamlit Developer Advocate Chanin Natasenamat and Mehdi in this Quack and Code episode.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Quack & Code
Ecosystem
0:14:35
2024-02-07
Why should you care about DuckDB? ft. Mihai Bojin
Talk from Mihai Bojin at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! Provides overview of big data landscape, data warehouses, DuckDB features and how simplicity always wins!
YouTube
Meetup
Talk
0:41:48
2024-02-02
DuckDB & Python | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (1/3)
Mehdi tackles an end-to-end data engineering project : getting usage insights from a python library using Python, SQL and DuckDB! This is the first part of the series.
YouTube
Python
Tutorial
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
0:24:56
2024-01-26
Monte Carlo Simulations With DuckDB ft. James McNeill
James McNeill talks about Monte Carlo simulations at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! Take random samples of your data to get efficient statistical answers to your questions.
YouTube
Meetup
Talk
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
0:54:04
2024-01-19
The Power of Wasm for Analytics: DuckDB in the Browser
This Quack & Code session explores Web Assembly (Wasm) use cases for analytics and DuckDB with Mehdi and Christophe Blefari! We discuss Wasm’s future role in data and show a hands-on demo.
YouTube
Wasm
BI & Visualization
0:01:00
2024-01-17
Simple way to convert CSV and Parquet files
Want convert CSV to Parquet or vice versa? In this YouTube short, Mehdi shows you how to convert using DuckDB as a Swiss Army Knife to convert data formats.
YouTube
Short
Tutorial
0:00:56
2024-01-10
Querying Data From S3 With 3 Lines In Your Terminal
This short from Mehdi Ouazza shows you how to use DuckDB to query data from S3 data lakes with 3 lines in your terminal.
YouTube
Short
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
0:12:50
2023-12-18
The future of BI: Exploring the impact of BI-as-code tools with DuckDB
Mehdi dives into 3 BI-as-code tools (Evidence, Rill, Streamlit) to create beautiful dashboards with DuckDB! Using code for building dashboards from data should delight software engineers!
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Tutorial
0:29:28
2023-12-01
DuckDB Experiments: Peeking into the Future of Analytics ft. Christophe Blefari
Christophe Blefari, freelance Data Engineer, discusses his experiments with DuckDB, focusing particularly on DuckDB Wasm and its potential implications for the future of browser-based analytics.
YouTube
Wasm
Talk
Meetup
0:30:14
2023-11-27
Speed-Querying StackOverflow data with DuckDB ft. Michael Hunger
Explore StackOverflow's vast data with Michael Hunger from Neo4j using DuckDB and MotherDuck. A highlight from the DuckDB Meetup in Berlin Nov 2023. Michael is also the co-author of the book 'DuckDB in action,’ published by Manning.
YouTube
0:10:23
2023-11-16
Making PySpark code faster with DuckDB
Mehdi demonstrates an experimental feature of DuckDB : running PySpark code with DuckDB engine ⚡ Note : This is not yet supported on MotherDuck
YouTube
Python
