1:00:37
2026-07-28
BI Is Having a Midlife Crisis
Jacob Matson and BI analyst Ryan Dolley on whether AI can replace your BI tool, what it actually solves, and what still needs governance.
Interview
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Videos and Online Events
41:41
2026-07-22
Writing robust data pipelines with AI
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
41:19
2026-07-14
Streaming Made Easy: Practical Postgres CDC with Streamkap + MotherDuck
Learn when Postgres CDC is worth it, what breaks it (WAL logs, replication slots, schema changes), and see a live Postgres-to-MotherDuck pipeline.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
AI, ML and LLMs
1:00:17
2026-07-09
The Database Inside Your Lakehouse: A DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive
See inside DuckLake's architecture: a SQL database catalog, Parquet storage, and pluggable compute that cut metadata latency to milliseconds.
Webinar
SQL
MotherDuck Features
46:45
2026-06-24
What Makes a Great Data Viz? DiveMaxxing Winners Revealed
What makes a great data visualization in the AI era? Three viz experts judge the DiveMaxxing winners and break down what separates great from busy.
Webinar
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
36:45
2026-06-23
From Source to Dashboard: Real Pipelines with Flights
Watch an AI agent build a data pipeline end to end in MotherDuck Flights: ingest, transform, and schedule it, then wire it into a live Dive dashboard.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
BI & Visualization
54:22
2026-06-18
DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)
Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't actually big. Three years later, the agent era is making his case for him. In this conversation on The Analytics Engineering Podcast, he and host Tristan Handy talk about how MotherDuck and DuckDB fit together, why a single-node database makes more sense than you'd think for agents, and what it would actually look like to have a swarm of agents managing your data.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
45:32
2026-06-17
Introducing Flights: Agent-Native Data Pipelines in MotherDuck
See how MotherDuck Flights lets you build and schedule Python data pipelines with an AI agent — from a single prompt to a running ingest pipeline and live dashboard.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Python
42:30
2026-06-09
Is Your Postgres Slow at Answering Analytics Questions?
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
28:00
2026-06-02
How MotherDuck Was Born: DuckDB, AI, and the Modern Data Stack | Jordan Tigani & Carly Kiser
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani on how AI is reshaping the modern data stack, why query latency now matters for agents, and the rise of open data formats.
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
1:00:00
2026-05-28
How Top E-Commerce Data Teams Drive Revenue with LLMs
See how e-commerce data teams use LLMs and MotherDuck to go from a plain-language business question to a published, interactive analysis in minutes.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
BI & Visualization
47:05
2026-05-26
Data Engineering Is AI Engineering
Jacob Matson refactors a real NBA app with AI agent teams, revealing how data engineering patterns like DAGs and wave planning map directly to agent orchestration.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
42:00
2026-05-19
Agentic Data Engineering: Building Pipelines End-to-End with AI
Watch an AI agent build a full data pipeline from scratch: ingestion with DLT, orchestration in Orchestra, staging and snapshots in MotherDuck, and a Dive for visual output.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
53:19
2026-05-12
Building a Data Product on MotherDuck: PriceMedic's Path from Raw Data to Revenue
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
1:02:00
2026-05-07
AI Data Analysis for Sales & Marketing Teams: Real Demos, No SQL Required
Watch how an AE and a marketer use AI to analyze their own business data without writing SQL or waiting on a data team.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Tutorial
1:01:04
2026-04-28
The DuckLake Lakehouse: From Getting Started to Going Fast
Learn how DuckLake's SQL-backed catalog cuts metadata latency to milliseconds, then tune Parquet settings, inlining, and partitioning for production.
Webinar
SQL
MotherDuck Features
7:14
2026-04-23
A Practical Guide to Context Management for Data Agents
Learn to write effective context for data agents. Covers benchmarks comparing English, SQL, and semantic model formats plus scaling strategies.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
2026-04-21
MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres: Fast Analytics Without Changing Your Stack
MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets any Postgres client, driver, or BI tool query your data warehouse without installing a DuckDB library.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
SQL
60:41
2026-04-09
Zero-Latency Analytics in Your Application with Dives
BI tools were never built to be app interfaces — they're rigid, clunky, and add complexity to your user experience. Dives offer a different approach: interactive data apps you create with natural language that can be embedded directly into your applications. In this session, Alex Monahan walks through how to build a Dive and embed it in your app, with help from AI agents. You'll learn how to create interactive visualizations with natural language queries, embed Dives into your app with a secure sandbox, set up the auth flow so your users get read-only access without exposing credentials, and choose between server-side and dual execution with DuckDB-Wasm. Whether you're building customer-facing analytics or internal tools, this webinar shows you the full workflow from query to production-ready embed. See how Claude Code + Dives can get you from zero to a working data app fast.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
BI & Visualization
App Development
58:00
2026-04-07
What's New in DuckDB 1.5!
Alex Monahan and Jacob Matson walk through DuckDB 1.5's biggest features including the VARIANT type, redesigned CLI, built-in GEOMETRY, and faster joins.
Webinar
55:29
2026-04-02
All About DuckLake: The O'Reilly Book
Matt Martin and Alex Monahan, coauthors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, discuss what DuckLake is, how it simplifies lakehouse architecture, and why it replaces file-based metadata with a SQL database. Includes a live Q&A and the release of Chapter 1.
Webinar
Ecosystem
43:41
2026-03-26
Beyond Charts: Building Interactive Data Apps with MotherDuck Dives
Learn to build interactive data apps with MotherDuck Dives. Go beyond static charts with live SQL, React components, and shareable URLs.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
BI & Visualization
38:23
2026-03-17
Agents That Build Tables, Not Just Query Them
See how MotherDuck's new query_rw MCP tool lets AI agents write back to your data warehouse, creating tables, storing embeddings, and saving views.
Stream
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
1:00:01
2026-03-12
Text-to-SQL, Data Modeling for LLMs, MCP, and Dives with Jacob Matson
Jacob Matson covers text-to-SQL accuracy, why data models matter more than LLM choice, the MotherDuck MCP workflow, and Dives on Super Data Brothers.
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
MotherDuck Features
1:00:14
2026-03-11
Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day
Learn how to build a conversational AI chatbot for your SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server, with scoped data access and streaming responses.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Tutorial
MotherDuck Features
1:00:10
2026-02-25
Shareable visualizations built by your favorite agent
You know the pattern: someone asks a question, you write a query, share the results — and a week later, the same question comes back. Watch this webinar to see how MotherDuck is rethinking how questions become answers, with AI agents that build and share interactive data visualizations straight from live queries.
Webinar
AI ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
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
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, ML and LLMs
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
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
2026-01-13
The MCP Sessions Vol. 1: Sports Analytics
Watch us dive into NFL playoff odds and PGA Tour stats using using MotherDuck's MCP server with Claude. See how to analyze data, build visualizations, and iterate on insights in real-time using natural language queries and DuckDB.
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Tutorial
BI & Visualization
Ecosystem
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
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
2025-11-05
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
2025-10-31
Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
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
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
2025-09-10
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
2025-07-26
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
2025-07-17
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
3 Lessons PostgreSQL Can Learn From DuckDB for Faster Analytics
Boost PostgreSQL analytics with DuckDB. Discover how columnar storage, vectorized execution, and pg_duckdb deliver 60x faster pipelines and lower TCO.
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
5:20
2025-03-14
How to Use the New DuckDB UI – Fast, Free, and Local
Mehdi walks through the new DuckDB UI, a free local SQL notebook you launch with duckdb -ui, and shows how to connect it to MotherDuck for cloud access.
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
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
Big Data is Dead: An Insider's Story on the Rise of Small Data
Stop paying the Big Data Tax. Discover why 95% of workloads need Small Data strategies and how MotherDuck's scale-up architecture delivers faster, cheaper analytics.
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
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
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
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
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
43:20
2024-03-20
Cube + MotherDuck: Data App Monetization Success
Cube and MotherDuck talk about the MDCuRe stack for building data apps: MotherDuck, Cube, React.
Ecosystem
Webinar
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: Faster Data Pipelines with Local Development
See how to use dbt with DuckDB for fast local data transformations. This walkthrough covers setup, workflow tips, and why DuckDB makes dbt builds run in seconds.
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
DuckDB WASM: Run SQL Analytics Directly in the Browser
Learn how DuckDB compiles to WebAssembly for in-browser SQL analytics. See a hands-on demo of querying data with DuckDB WASM — no server required.
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
0:07:46
2023-11-03
Why did we raise now ? CEO Backstage Call 📞
Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck.
YouTube
Interview
0:01:51
2023-10-31
MotherDuck in 100 seconds (by a duck 🦆)
A duck gives you a fast-paced tour of MotherDuck product capabilities and features.
YouTube
MotherDuck Features
00:58:00
2023-10-27
Panel: Fixing the Data Engineering Lifecycle; Coalesce 2023
This panel explores the MDS-in-a-box pattern, which has been a game changer for applying software engineering principles to local data development.
Talk
0:16:49
2023-10-10
Unleashing the Power of DuckDB for Interactive SQL Notebooks
DataCamp’s SQL notebooks, powered by Jupyter Labs and DuckDB. Talk from Rik Bauwens of DataCamp at one of the MotherDuck/DuckDB meetups that happened in September 2023 in Belgium, Leuven.
YouTube
SQL
Talk
Meetup
0:22:26
2023-10-06
Why use DuckDB in your data pipelines ft. Niels Claeys
Want to use DuckDB in your data pipelines? Watch this talk from Niels Claeys of Data Minded at the September 2023 MotherDuck/DuckDB meetup in Belgium, Leuven.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
0:11:01
2023-09-08
DuckDB's Wild Ride in the Open Source World ft. Co-creator Mark Raasveldt
Mehdi interviews Mark Raasveldt, CTO of DuckDB Labs and co-creator of DuckDB just before DuckCon in San Francisco. He aimed to gain some insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the open-source project. Enjoy the conversation!
YouTube
Interview
0:05:48
2023-09-05
Data Visualisation Tools With DuckDB & MotherDuck - Hex/Preset
Mehdi walks you through two (actually three) data viz tools you can use with @duckdb and MotherDuck: @_hex_tech , @Preset-io & Superset.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Ecosystem
Tutorial
0:00:51
2023-09-01
Why don't data producers pay attention to how their data is used downstream? 🤔
Short cut from Mehdi’s interview with O’Reilly “Data Engineering” co-author Joe Reis.
YouTube
Short
Interview
0:25:04
2023-08-24
The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak
Mehdi chats with Adi Polak, the author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark", right after the DATA+AI summit by Databricks in San Francisco. They had an insightful discussion about ML, the basics of data, how LLMs help, ++.
YouTube
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
0:08:53
2023-06-13
Unleashing DuckDB & dbt for local analytics triumphs
Mehdi does a walkthrough of using DuckDB with dbt, and the features these two frameworks provide when combined by Data and Analytics engineers.
YouTube
dbt
Ecosystem
0:12:05
2023-06-01
DuckDB vs Pandas vs Polars: Performance Comparison for Python
Compare DuckDB, Pandas, and Polars side by side with benchmarks and code examples. Learn which Python data library is fastest for your analytics workload.
YouTube
Python
Tutorial
0:29:00
2023-05-12
Beyond Data Engineering ft. Joe Reis
Mehdi sat down with O’Reilly author Joe Reis to discuss different aspects of data engineering. They touched on the fears surrounding data, the critical role of communication, and more.
YouTube
Interview
Data Pipelines
0:00:50
2023-05-02
Working with SQL with your favorite editor ? Check this 👉
Create VSCode shortcuts for making it easy to send your SQL queries to DuckDB for execution in the integrated terminal.
YouTube
SQL
Short
0:00:57
2023-04-23
The magic of DuckDB extensions for data engineering and analytics 🪄
This short from Mehdi Ouazza talks about DuckDB for OLAP and how DuckDB extensions are installed and loaded.
YouTube
Short
0:52:01
2023-04-20
Big Data: Funeral or Renaissance?
Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post.
YouTube
Stream
0:11:25
2023-04-04
DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners
Mehdi covers all the basics to get you up and running with DuckDB! Enjoy learning about installation, working flow, ecosystem and doing your first analysis.
YouTube
Tutorial
0:00:57
2023-03-09
Making an impact with a research project: DuckDB
In this short, DuckDB co-creator Hannes talks about applying database research to building database systems and achieve real impact.
YouTube
Interview
Short
0:07:35
2023-03-06
The Surprising Birth Of DuckDB ft. Co-creator Hannes Mühleisen
In this first Quack Chat episode, Mehdi interviews Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, in Brussels during DuckCon.
YouTube
Interview
Short