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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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Jun 18, 2026 • 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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
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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
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!
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Data Pipelines
Tutorial
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Ecosystem
60:00
Oct 23, 2025 • Ryan Boyd, Ryan Dolley
MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.
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BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
Sep 10, 2025 • Jacob Matson, Sahil Gupta
Hear how DoSomething's data team escaped the enterprise data trap, achieving 20X cost reduction and transforming hours-long queries into seconds with MotherDuck.
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Jul 26, 2025 • Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson, Daniel Palma
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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May 28, 2025 • Jacob Matson, Rob Teeuwen
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.
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May 21, 2025 • Hamilton Ulmer, Jacob Matson, Jerel Navarrete
Imagine writing SQL queries that give you instant visual feedback, transforming your entire data exploration experience. That's what Instant SQL enables with MotherDuck.
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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.
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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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
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.
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Apr 10, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza, Jacob Matson, Archie Wood, Nate Sooter, Evelyn Wou
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.
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5:20
Mar 14, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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24:06
Mar 13, 2025 • Gábor Szárnyas
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.
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Data Pipelines
dbt
MotherDuck Features
Feb 21, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi revisits the basics in this 35-minute video, covering everything you need to know about DuckDB and MotherDuck.
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Feb 10, 2025 • Mehdi Ouazza, Lorenzo Mangani
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.
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Jan 21, 2025 • Gilad Lotan
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.
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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.
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Wasm
SQL
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Nov 22, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Data Pipelines
Sources
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Nov 17, 2024 • Benn Stancil
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.
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BI & Visualization
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
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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
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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!
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Ingestion
SQL
Ecosystem
59:07
Oct 24, 2024 • Jordan Tigani, Matt Turck
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.
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Interview
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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
Meetup
Talk
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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
Sep 24, 2024 • Julia Schottenstein
Learn how LangChain enables developers to build powerful agentic systems, evolving from simple chains to dynamic, context-aware agents for real-world AI applications.
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Sep 24, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Archie Wood
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
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Quack & Code
Sep 24, 2024 • Jeffrey Morgan
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.
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Sep 19, 2024 • Jacob Matson, John Kutay
John Kutay interviews MotherDuck's Jacob Matson about all things data including MotherDuck, DuckDB and more.
Interview
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14:49
Aug 29, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Tutorial
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Aug 21, 2024 • Jacob Matson, Mehdi Ouazza
Learn about ad hoc reporting with DuckDB from experts Mehdi Ouazza and Jacob Matson, creator of the MDS-in-a-Box.
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BI & Visualization
Quack & Code
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.
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Talk
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Jul 24, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Holly Smith
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.
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Sources
Quack & Code
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Jul 11, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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!
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Quack & Code
MotherDuck Features
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Jun 28, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Stephanie Wang
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.
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Quack & Code
MotherDuck Features
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Jun 27, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
In this part 3 of the project, @mehdio explores how to build a Dashboard with Evidence using MotherDuck/DuckDb as a data source.
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BI & Visualization
Tutorial
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Jun 21, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
Learn about DuckDB extensions, including the ability to query data in your AWS S3-powered data lake.
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Short
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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.
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Quack & Code
SQL
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Jun 12, 2024 • Nathaniel Thompson
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 ++
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MotherDuck Features
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Jun 7, 2024 • Jan Soubusta
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.
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Ecosystem
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May 31, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Andrea Soria
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.
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AI, ML and LLMs
Quack & Code
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May 16, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Brian Olsen
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.
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Sources
Quack & Code
Ecosystem
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May 10, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Cody Peterson
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.
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Ecosystem
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May 7, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Pedro Holanda
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!
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Sources
May 1, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
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.
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BI & Visualization
Interview
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Apr 24, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Wasm
MotherDuck Features
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Apr 22, 2024 • Alex Monahan, Colton Padden
Develop locally and ship to production confidently with Dagster data pipelines, Evidence dashboards powered by DuckDB and Markdown, and the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse.
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Data Pipelines
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Apr 5, 2024 • Ryan Boyd, Kaustav Mitra
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.
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dbt
Ecosystem
0:56:54
Mar 28, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Matt Forrest
Mehdi and his guest Matt Forrest quack and code - diving into Geo data with DuckDB and explore the spatial extension.
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Quack & Code
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Mar 15, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer
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!
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BI & Visualization
Wasm
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Mar 1, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
@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
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Data Pipelines
dbt
Tutorial
Ecosystem
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Feb 29, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Josh Wills
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.
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Ecosystem
Quack & Code
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
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Feb 15, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Chanin Nantasenamat
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.
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BI & Visualization
Quack & Code
Ecosystem
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!
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Meetup
Talk
0:41:48
Feb 2, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Python
Tutorial
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!
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SQL
Quack & Code
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.
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Meetup
Talk
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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”
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Short
SQL
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Jan 19, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Christophe Blefari
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.
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Wasm
BI & Visualization
0:01:00
Jan 17, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Short
Tutorial
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Jan 10, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
This short from Mehdi Ouazza shows you how to use DuckDB to query data from S3 data lakes with 3 lines in your terminal.
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Short
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.
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SQL
Quack & Code
0:12:50
Dec 18, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
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!
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BI & Visualization
Tutorial
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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Nov 27, 2023 • 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.
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0:10:23
Nov 16, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi demonstrates an experimental feature of DuckDB : running PySpark code with DuckDB engine ⚡ Note : This is not yet supported on MotherDuck
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Python
0:07:46
Nov 3, 2023 • Jordan Tigani
Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck.
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Interview
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Oct 31, 2023
A duck gives you a fast-paced tour of MotherDuck product capabilities and features.
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MotherDuck Features
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.
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Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
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Sep 8, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, 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!
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Interview
0:05:48
Sep 5, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi walks you through two (actually three) data viz tools you can use with @duckdb and MotherDuck: @_hex_tech , @Preset-io & Superset.
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BI & Visualization
Ecosystem
Tutorial
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Sep 1, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, Joe Reis
Short cut from Mehdi’s interview with O’Reilly “Data Engineering” co-author Joe Reis.
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Short
Interview
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Aug 24, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, 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, ++.
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Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
0:08:53
Jun 13, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi does a walkthrough of using DuckDB with dbt, and the features these two frameworks provide when combined by Data and Analytics engineers.
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dbt
Ecosystem
0:12:05
Jun 1, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
Compare DuckDB, Pandas, and Polars side by side with benchmarks and code examples. Learn which Python data library is fastest for your analytics workload.
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Python
Tutorial
0:29:00
May 12, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, 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.
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Interview
Data Pipelines
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.
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SQL
Short
0:00:57
Apr 23, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
This short from Mehdi Ouazza talks about DuckDB for OLAP and how DuckDB extensions are installed and loaded.
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Short
0:52:01
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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Stream
0:11:25
Apr 4, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza
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.
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Tutorial
0:00:57
Mar 9, 2023 • Hannes Mühleisen
In this short, DuckDB co-creator Hannes talks about applying database research to building database systems and achieve real impact.
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Interview
Short
0:07:35
Mar 6, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, Hannes Mühleisen
In this first Quack Chat episode, Mehdi interviews Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, in Brussels during DuckCon.
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Interview
Short