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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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64:46
Oct 27, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Matt Martin
Alex Monahan and Matt Martin, co-authors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, walk through how to make DuckLake queries faster: finding the bottleneck, partitioning and sorting so queries skip files and row groups, tuning Parquet settings together, and keeping the catalog lean.
Stream
SQL
MotherDuck Features
58:27
Sep 3, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Hoyt Emerson
Learn how DuckLake time travel, schema evolution, and the change feed work: query any snapshot, undo bad writes, and evolve tables without rewrites.
Stream
SQL
Ecosystem
60:29
Aug 26, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Jacob Matson
Do AI agents need a semantic layer? Evals comparing plain-text context with a Malloy semantic layer show where each wins, and what it costs.
Stream
AI, ML and LLMs
BI & Visualization
SQL
52:23
Aug 12, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Learn how to evaluate AI agents that query your data: run text-to-SQL evals with Braintrust and MotherDuck, read traces, and fix failures with context.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
Ecosystem
1:00:17
Jul 9, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Jerel Navarrete
See inside DuckLake's architecture: a SQL database catalog, Parquet storage, and pluggable compute that cut metadata latency to milliseconds.
Webinar
SQL
MotherDuck Features
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
1:01:04
Apr 28, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Jerel Navarrete
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
38:44
Apr 21, 2026 • Garrett O'Brien, Louisa Huang
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
38:23
Mar 17, 2026 • Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson
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
Mar 12, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Ryan Dolley
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
Jan 27, 2026 • Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson
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
Jan 21, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Alex Monahan
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
Jan 13, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Logan Toskey
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
Dec 10, 2025 • Hoyt Emerson
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
Nov 19, 2025 • Ryan Boyd
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
Nov 5, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
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
Sep 24, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
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
Sep 18, 2025 • Ryan Boyd
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
Sep 10, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
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
Apr 23, 2025 • Hamilton Ulmer
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
24:42
Jan 17, 2025 • Jacob Matson
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
Dec 11, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
33:49
Nov 8, 2024 • Jacob Matson, Guen Prawiroatmodjo
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
Oct 25, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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
1:03:13
Jun 13, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Lindsay Murphy
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
1:05:37
Feb 1, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Ted Conbeer
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
0:00:47
Jan 22, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Alex Monahan
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
0:54:38
Jan 5, 2024 • Alex Monahan, Mehdi Ouazza
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
0:16:49
Oct 10, 2023 • Rik Bauwens
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
0:00:50
May 2, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
Create VSCode shortcuts for making it easy to send your SQL queries to DuckDB for execution in the integrated terminal.
YouTube
SQL
Short