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
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
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
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
2025-04-22
More Than a Vibe: AI-Driven SQL That Actually Works
Jacob Matson shares insights from AI-powered spatial data analysis, exploring how to "vibe code" with AI-generated SQL using MotherDuck and DuckDB for real-world decision-making scenarios.
Talk
AI, ML and LLMs
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
2025-04-10
Practical AI Workflows For Data Professionals
4 lightning talks on practical AI workflows: -Mehdi: MCP feedback loops for faster data engineering cycles -Archie: Cursor configs for data app dev -Nate: LLMs + SQL for CRM cleaning -Evelyn: Auto-generated data catalog descriptions
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Quality
Data Pipelines
2025-03-18
Scaling DuckDB to TBs and PBs with Smallpond, MotherDuck and homegrown solutions
In this panel, Medhi is joined by three fascinating guests, each with unique experience in scaling DuckDB: Jake Thomas from Okta, Jordan Tigani from MotherDuck, and Michael Ritchie from Definite.
Webinar
Interview
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
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
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
50:21
2024-10-09
Big data is dead, analytics is alive.
Till and Adithya from MotherDuck discuss DuckDB’s impact on analytics and AI, showcasing its fast, versatile in-process SQL and AI features like text-to-SQL, vector search, and query correction—powerful analytics even on your laptop.
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
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
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
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
