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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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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.
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SQL
MotherDuck Features
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Oct 21, 2026 • Alex Monahan
Patrik Devlin, co-founder and CTO of Hazel, joins host Alex Monahan to show Hazel in a demo account and walk through the stack behind it: Fivetran and dlt into S3, dbt in MotherDuck, and a separate database for every customer.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
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Oct 15, 2026 • Kaitlyn Henry
Zoey Weaver interviews Kaitlyn Henry, MotherDuck's Chief of Staff, as she walks through two internal data apps: an AI token spend tracker built on a Flight and a weekly business review Dive. She explains how Guides, markdown files that define the company's key metrics, keep everyone's numbers consistent.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
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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
51:58
Oct 1, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Jacob Matson walks through a working data chat agent he built: MCP tools, an agentic loop, a tuned system prompt, hard-coded read-only guardrails, and telemetry. He demos it live against a real dataset, walks through the actual codebase, then shows the same backend re-platformed into a Slack bot.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
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Sep 29, 2026 • Hamilton Ulmer, Dumky de Wilde, Jacob Matson
MotherDuck's new prompt_jev() function runs text classification directly from SQL using Jev, a decision-focused model from typesafe.ai. In a live demo, Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer showed it filtering, disambiguating, and re-ranking real data without leaving SQL. The number they kept coming back to: 100,000 rows classified at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds, compared to 32 minutes and $37.58 for a comparable LLM call.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
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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
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Sep 10, 2026 • Colin Rogers, Jacob Matson
See a live cross-engine pipeline: Spark transcribes audio and writes to Iceberg, then MotherDuck attaches that catalog directly as a queryable database.
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Data Pipelines
dbt
Ecosystem
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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.
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SQL
Ecosystem
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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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
BI & Visualization
SQL
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Aug 18, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Agentic data engineering in practice: AI agents build dlt ingestion into MotherDuck and a governed Lightdash semantic layer, live in an hour.
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AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
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Aug 13, 2026 • Garrett O'Brien
Guides store business context inside your warehouse so AI agents write correct SQL. See how warehouse-native context works in MotherDuck.
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AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
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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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
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
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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!
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AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
SQL
BI & Visualization
Tutorial
Oct 31, 2025 • Jordan Tigani, Garrett O'Brien
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
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Interview
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Apr 20, 2023 • Jordan Tigani, Aditya Parameswaran, Aaron Elmore
Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post.
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