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Oct 8, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi Ouazza uses MotherDuck's prompt_jev() to turn text columns into columns you can GROUP BY. He classifies 100,000 consumer complaints, then walks through five use cases on real data: AI agent logs, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, and two kinds of job-ad analysis.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Oct 6, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings and a regex replacement.
Sep 29, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Turn a free-text column into typed SQL columns with prompt_jev(): 100,000 consumer complaints classified in 82 seconds, at about 1% of a frontier LLM's cost, plus how to check the labels before you trust them.
37:22
Sep 16, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
One CLI to query MotherDuck, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from the terminal. See when it beats the MCP server, and when it doesn't.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
Sep 10, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.
Aug 27, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza, MotherDuck team
Meet the MotherDuck CLI: one install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from your terminal, for coding agents and CI alike.
Aug 4, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
AI agents can now provision a Postgres database, an email inbox or a data warehouse with no signup and no credit card. Here is how MotherDuck's agent signup endpoint works, and how motherduck.com/try lets you inspect, share and replay everything the agent did.
41:41
Jul 22, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
AI writes data pipelines in seconds, but green isn't correct. Build robust data pipelines with AI: eyes on data, foundations, tests, and contracts.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Jul 14, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
A practical map of self-hosting DuckDB, from a laptop to a full data platform: the architectures people actually build at each stage, benchmarks that show the trade-offs, and the boxes you end up maintaining, so you can make an honest build-versus-buy call.
Jul 7, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
AI pipelines run green and still return wrong numbers. Four habits to turn a one-shot prompt into a data pipeline you can actually trust.
Jun 29, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
We launched Flights, an AI-native Python runtime in MotherDuck. Here's how I built a full end-to-end data pipeline (two scheduled Flights and a Dive dashboard) from a single prompt, using an AI coding agent and the MotherDuck MCP.
42:30
Jun 9, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Postgres slows down on analytics as your app grows. Learn the signs you've hit its ceiling and how to offload analytical queries to MotherDuck.
Webinar
SQL
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
Jun 4, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Run DuckDB SQL inside your Obsidian notes and freeze the results as plain markdown tables, local files or MotherDuck cloud data alike. Your vault becomes a local knowledge base your AI agent can read without ever querying the warehouse
53:19
May 12, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza, Josh Nakka
PriceMedic replaced Athena and Redshift with MotherDuck. Co-founder Josh Nakka on the 14x speedup, $20K/month savings, and Dives for customers.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Apr 20, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza, Samantha Lohier, Leonardo Vida
MotherDuck Agent Skills is an open-source catalog that teaches AI coding agents how to work with MotherDuck: exploring schemas, writing DuckDB SQL, using the REST API, and building Dives. If MCP gives agents hands, skills give them a playbook.
Apr 10, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Five fundamental data visualization principles that transform AI-generated dashboards from pretty charts into actionable insights. Learn chart selection, design, narrative, and interactivity.
Mar 25, 2026 • Ryan Boyd, Mehdi Ouazza
Share interactive, AI-built data apps with anyone through a unique link — queries run live on MotherDuck compute.
Mar 6, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
MCP explained for data people: what it is, how it works, and how to connect your AI agent to your databases and tools
9:09
Feb 13, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is, how its three building blocks work, and how to set up remote and local MCP servers. Includes a real demo chaining MotherDuck and Notion MCP servers in a single prompt.
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MCP
AI, ML and LLMs
0:09:18
Jan 21, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Tutorial
AI, ML and LLMs
Oct 27, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza, Maël Deschamps
Watch this webinar with MotherDuck and Artefact for a discussion about how to achieve exceptional performance for gold layer analytics using DuckDB .
Webinar
Oct 15, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
Oct 14, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Explore the latest transformation layer architectures and real-world uses, plus how MotherDuck utilizes DuckDB for cloud-scale transformation.
Webinar
Oct 8, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Understand why a database is much more than just a dataframe library
Aug 11, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn how to combine Apache Spark’s scale with DuckLake’s simplicity to build a lakehouse with ACID, time travel, and schema evolution
Jul 17, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
Jul 15, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn how to keep LLMs updated with llms.txt and Cursor's docs feature.
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Jun 12, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza, Julien Hurault
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
Jun 9, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn how DuckLake simplifies metadata and brings fast, database-like features to your data lakehouse — with a hands-on example using DuckDB and PostgreSQL
Jun 5, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
May 30, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn how to query load table from BigQuery to DuckDB and MotherDuck using SQL and Python!
May 20, 2025 • Michael Driscoll, Mehdi Ouazza
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
May 13, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
May 12, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Walkthrough of the new DuckDB UI features!
Apr 23, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
Apr 15, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect Claude, Cursor, or other AI tools directly to DuckDB. Query data, generate SQL, and automate pipelines—without copy-pasting
