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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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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 • Benn Stancil
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
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
Oct 14, 2025 • Jacob Matson, Alex Monahan
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
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
20:44
Jun 13, 2025 • Jelte Fennema-Nio
Boost PostgreSQL analytics with DuckDB. Discover how columnar storage, vectorized execution, and pg_duckdb deliver 60x faster pipelines and lower TCO.
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Ecosystem
Talk
Jun 12, 2025 • Jelte Fennema-Nio
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
Jun 2, 2025 • Alex Monahan
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
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
Apr 22, 2025 • Jacob Matson
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
25:18
Nov 15, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
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
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?
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BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
Python
Talk
29:54
Oct 23, 2024 • Till Döhmen
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
Oct 14, 2024 • Nick Ursa
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.
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Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
27:49
Aug 19, 2024 • Guen Prawiroatmodjo
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
0:21:59
Feb 19, 2024 • 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!
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AI, ML and LLMs
Meetup
Talk
0:14:35
Feb 7, 2024 • 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
0:24:56
Jan 26, 2024 • 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
0:29:28
Dec 1, 2023 • 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.
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Wasm
Talk
Meetup
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Oct 27, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, Sung Won Chung , Matt Housley, Louise de Leyritz
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
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.
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SQL
Talk
Meetup
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Oct 6, 2023 • 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