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2026 111

  1. Introducing Dive Apps: Superpowers for AI Builders
  2. Bringing the Big Ducks
  3. VIDEOHow Hazel Built an AI CoworkerOct 21, 2026 · 51:02 min
  4. DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : October 2026
  5. prompt_jev() now works on images
  6. CASE STUDYByzfunder: A Second Opinion on Every Classification with Jev on MotherDuckOct 16, 2026
  7. MotherDuck is coming to Azure
  8. A Chief of Staff's Guide to Context Layers
  9. VIDEOAligned on Numbers: A Chief of Staff's Data AppsOct 15, 2026 · 44:21 min
  10. Data Engineering Is the Cache Invalidation Problem ft. Josh Wills
  11. VIDEOJev for Analytics: 5 Use CasesOct 8, 2026 · 43:57 min
  12. 5 Jev use cases for analytics, with real queries and datasets
  13. Build It Yourself: What You'll Make at the Data Outpost Workshops
  14. AI Needs Data, Data Needs AI: What You'll Learn at Data Outpost
  15. VIDEOBuild a Data Agent in 60 MinutesOct 1, 2026 · 51:58 min
  16. Jev for analytics: turn text columns into gold, in plain SQL
  17. VIDEOprompt_jev(): SQL-Native Text ClassificationSep 29, 2026 · 49:02 min
  18. Querying the entire internet (100 billion rows!) with MotherDuck
  19. dbt Charts on MotherDuck: Declarative Dashboards
  20. Introducing prompt_jev(): bringing Jev to Motherduck SQL
  21. DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026
  22. VIDEOMotherDuck CLI: query, pipelines, dashboards for your agents and CISep 16, 2026 · 37:22 min
  23. They All Write, Store, and Read Data: How to Pick The Right Database
  24. Your DuckDB Flock Deserves A Mother: MotherDuck Now Offers Open Source DuckDB Support
  25. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
  26. ECOSYSTEMIntegrations: SigmaSep 3, 2026 · Business Intelligence
  27. Agents Don’t Query Like Humans Do
  28. Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era
  29. ECOSYSTEMIntegrations: BasedashSep 2, 2026 · Business Intelligence
  30. Differential storage
  31. ECOSYSTEMIntegrations: Kilo CodeJul 14, 2026 · AI Agents
  32. Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It) | MotherDuck
  33. Announcing DiveMaxxing: An Online Data Viz Hackathon | MotherDuck
  34. CASE STUDYHazel: Building an AI Co-Worker for E-Commerce on MotherDuckMay 28, 2026
  35. Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini | MotherDuck
  36. Vibe Coding Comes for BI: A Tactical Guide for Analysts & Analytics Engineers | MotherDuck
  37. If It Quacks Like a Duck: DuckDB Gets a Client-Server Protocol | MotherDuck
  38. Git for Data Applied | MotherDuck
  39. DuckDB Monthly #41: DuckDB internals course, FTS walkthrough, and a satellite pipeline with H3 + Parquet | MotherDuck
  40. Faster Ducks | MotherDuck
  41. MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres
  42. Why REST and JDBC Are Killing Your Data Stack — Flight SQL to the Rescue | MotherDuck
  43. AI Agent Analytics with Vercel & MotherDuck
  44. April Product Roundup: Duckling Monitoring, Embedded Dives, DuckLake 1.0, and More | MotherDuck
  45. Internal vs. External Storage: What's the Limit of External Tables? | MotherDuck
  46. CASE STUDYGoodShip: Building an Analytics Agent for Global LogisticsApr 24, 2026
  47. MotherDuck on Cloudflare Workers: real-time apps at the edge
  48. DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – April 2026 | MotherDuck
  49. Vibe-Coding a Dashboard? Here Are 5 Steps So It Doesn't Suck | MotherDuck
  50. MotherDuck Managed DuckLake Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes
  51. When Spark Meets DuckLake: Tooling You Know, Simplicity You Need | MotherDuck
  52. More Control, Less Hassle: Self-Serve Recovery with Point-in-Time Restore | MotherDuck
  53. Instant SQL is here: Speedrun ad-hoc queries as you type | MotherDuck
  54. MCP + DuckDB: Connect AI Assistants to Your Data Pipelines | MotherDuck
  55. Introducing FixIt: an unreasonably effective AI error fixer for SQL | MotherDuck
  56. Introducing HumanDB: The World's First Human-Powered Analytical Database | MotherDuck
  57. Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman | MotherDuck
  58. The Dive Gallery Is Live: Share Your Interactive Data Apps With the World | MotherDuck
  59. Local dev and cloud prod for faster dbt development | MotherDuck
  60. MotherDuck + dbt: Better Together
  61. dbt & DuckDB Tutorial: Build a Local Data Pipeline | MotherDuck
  62. DuckDB Wasm: Analytical SQL Database in Your Browser | MotherDuck
  63. DuckDB Excel Extension: How to Read & Import XLSX Files | MotherDuck
  64. What is MCP? A Data Person's Guide to Agentic Analytics | MotherDuck
  65. Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data | MotherDuck
  66. DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – March 2026 | MotherDuck
  67. MotherDuck & Tableau Cloud - now available!
  68. A Practitioner's Guide to MotherDuck Dives
  69. DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – February 2026 | MotherDuck
  70. Building an Unstructured Data Pipeline: ETL with MotherDuck & Unstructured.io
  71. Introducing the embedding() function: Semantic search made easy with SQL! | MotherDuck
  72. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2023 | MotherDuck
  73. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2022 | MotherDuck
  74. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2023 | MotherDuck
  75. Making PySpark Code Faster with DuckDB | MotherDuck
  76. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2025 | MotherDuck
  77. Analyze Data in Azure with DuckDB | MotherDuck
  78. Teaching Your AI About DuckDB the Right Way: How to Fix Outdated Documentation | MotherDuck
  79. AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL-7B, A LLM for DuckDB SQL | MotherDuck
  80. Your Data Model Is the Semantic Layer | MotherDuck
  81. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024 | MotherDuck
  82. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024 | MotherDuck
  83. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2024 | MotherDuck
  84. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2023 | MotherDuck
  85. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2023 | MotherDuck
  86. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2023 | MotherDuck
  87. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2023 | MotherDuck
  88. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2023 | MotherDuck
  89. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2023 | MotherDuck
  90. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: May 2023 | MotherDuck
  91. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2023 | MotherDuck
  92. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2023 | MotherDuck
  93. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2023 | MotherDuck
  94. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2024 | MotherDuck
  95. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024 | MotherDuck
  96. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2024 | MotherDuck
  97. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2024 | MotherDuck
  98. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2024 | MotherDuck
  99. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2024 | MotherDuck
  100. DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2025 | MotherDuck
  101. DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2025 | MotherDuck
  102. DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025 | MotherDuck
  103. DuckDB Ecosystem: May 2025 | MotherDuck
  104. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2025 | MotherDuck
  105. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2025 | MotherDuck
  106. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2025 | MotherDuck
  107. DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2025 | MotherDuck
  108. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025 | MotherDuck
  109. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2026 | MotherDuck
  110. This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2025 | MotherDuck
  111. SQL Golf: 5 SQL Tricks You Should (Probably) Never Use | MotherDuck

2025 26

  1. How We Built an Internal "Wrapped" with MotherDuck & SQL
  2. Can you crack the case? Solve SQL puzzles in the Christmas Heist challenge and compete for prizes. The clock is ticking. | MotherDuck
  3. Streaming Pipelines with MotherDuck and Artie
  4. Small Data SF 2025: the Recap! | MotherDuck
  5. Essential SQL Keyboard Shortcuts for a Faster, More Fluid Workflow | MotherDuck
  6. Why Python Developers Need DuckDB (And Not Just Another DataFrame Library) | MotherDuck
  7. Getting started with modern GIS using DuckDB | MotherDuck
  8. Reflections on SIGMOD/PODS 2024: Insights and Highlights | MotherDuck
  9. Galileo.world: The Future of GIS for Big Geospatial Data | MotherDuck
  10. DuckDB × cognee: Run SQL Analytics Right Beside Your Graph-Native RAG | MotherDuck
  11. Just Enough SQL to Safely Use AI for Data Analysis | MotherDuck
  12. New: Enhanced FixIt & Inline SQL Editor | MotherDuck
  13. Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced | MotherDuck
  14. Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up | MotherDuck
  15. How to Make Cursor + AI Write Perfect SQL Every Time | MotherDuck
  16. DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL
  17. Taming Wild CSVs: Techniques for Data Engineers | MotherDuck
  18. Meet the New DuckDB Local UI: Analyze Data Visually, Right Where It Lives | MotherDuck
  19. The Data Engineer's Guide to Efficient Log Parsing with DuckDB/MotherDuck
  20. Streaming Oracle to MotherDuck with Estuary
  21. Simplifying IoT Analytics with MotherDuck
  22. Prompting? That’s so 2024. Welcome to Quack-to-SQL. | MotherDuck
  23. Vector Technologies for AI: Extending Your Existing Data Stack | MotherDuck
  24. How we use MotherDuck at MotherDuck
  25. Faster health data analysis with MotherDuck & Preswald
  26. MotherDuck Now Supports DuckDB 1.2: Faster, Friendlier, Better Performance

2024 30

  1. What’s New: Streamlined User Management, Metadata, and UI Enhancements | MotherDuck
  2. We made a fake duck game: compete to win! | MotherDuck
  3. Structured data generation with prompt() in MotherDuck and dbt
  4. Supercharged Python Notebooks | MotherDuck
  5. Introducing Read Scaling | MotherDuck
  6. Improved Control and Ergonomics on MotherDuck
  7. How to Extract Analytics from Bluesky, the New Open Social Network | MotherDuck
  8. From Data Lake to Lakehouse: Can DuckDB be the best portable catalog? | MotherDuck
  9. Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi | MotherDuck
  10. You asked, We Listened: Sharing, UI and Performance Improvements | MotherDuck
  11. Small Data is bigger (and hotter 🔥) than ever | MotherDuck
  12. Union and MotherDuck's Orchestrated Approach to Advanced Analytics
  13. Introducing the prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL! | MotherDuck
  14. MotherDuck at Coalesce 2024: Your Ultimate Guide to Quack-tastic Fun!
  15. 5 Hidden gems in DuckDB 1.1 | MotherDuck
  16. Generating a data app with your MotherDuck data
  17. Swimming in Google Sheets with MotherDuck
  18. Small Data SF: The Agenda is now live…with *NEW* hands-on workshops | MotherDuck
  19. Secoda x MotherDuck: Introducing the Newest Member of the Modern Duck Stack 🦆
  20. New Collaboration Features: Org-level sharing and Auto-Join | MotherDuck
  21. Build a dashboard to monitor your python package usage with DuckDB & MotherDuck
  22. Pushing the Boundaries of Geo Data with MotherDuck and Geobase!
  23. Search in DuckDB: Integrating Full Text and Embedding Methods | MotherDuck
  24. Congratulations to DuckDB Labs On Reaching 1.0! | MotherDuck
  25. How we Saved 95% on Log Processing with Bacalhau and MotherDuck
  26. Developing a RAG Knowledge Base with DuckDB [SentenceTransformers] | MotherDuck
  27. Building Vector Search in DuckDB | MotherDuck
  28. Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data | MotherDuck
  29. Why you should learn SQL in 2024 | MotherDuck
  30. Streaming Data To MotherDuck With Estuary

2023 14

  1. MotherDuck's HQ Nest is Ready for the Flock
  2. Announcing: DuckDB code snippet sets with MotherDuck Sharing
  3. Analyze Your X (Twitter) Data with Node.js and DuckDB | MotherDuck
  4. Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on MotherDuck (Part 2)
  5. Beyond Storing Data: How to Use DuckDB, MotherDuck and Kestra for ETL
  6. Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on MotherDuck (Part 1)
  7. Birds of a Feather MotherDuck Together
  8. Announcing MotherDuck: Hybrid Execution Scales DuckDB from your Laptop into the Cloud
  9. Data Engineer's Highlights from PyCon DE 2023 | MotherDuck
  10. Why does everybody hate databases? | MotherDuck
  11. Solving Advent of Code with DuckDB and dbt | MotherDuck
  12. Python Faker for DuckDB Fake Data Generation | MotherDuck
  13. How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB | MotherDuck
  14. How We're Making Analytics Ducking Awesome | MotherDuck

2022 1

  1. Hello, World! Quack. Quack. | MotherDuck

Undated 104

  1. Vibe coding dangerous agentic engineering wes mckinney
  2. Oops maybe we do need semantic layers
  3. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter june 2026
  4. Ducklake motherduck
  5. Data engineering toolkit infrastructure devops
  6. Water town agent swarm data stack
  7. Open lakehouse stack duckdb table formats
  8. Dont fear the agents ai on the data lakehouse
  9. Motherduck open for all with series b
  10. Announcing ducklake 1 0 on motherduck
  11. Announcing series seed and a
  12. Replacing our bi tool with dives
  13. Flight plans templates for ai native data pipelines
  14. Full data pipeline one prompt
  15. Fabi ai llm prompt analysis
  16. What makes a great dive divemaxxing
  17. Data engineers answer 10 top reddit questions
  18. Streamlining ai agents duckdb rag solutions
  19. Consulting the oracle claude on the future of data
  20. Microbatch dbt duckdb
  21. Announcing duckdb 141 motherduck
  22. Csv files persist duckdb solution
  23. Cidr paper hybrid query processing motherduck
  24. Duckdb python e2e data engineering project part 1
  25. Dosomething motherduck data warehouse ROI
  26. Duckdb olap caching
  27. Data engineering toolkit essential tools
  28. Summer data engineering roadmap
  29. Duckdb versus pandas versus polars
  30. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter november 2024
  31. Pg duckdb postgresql extension for duckdb motherduck
  32. Motherduck planetscale integration
  33. Pgduckdb beta release duckdb postgres
  34. Redshift files hunt for big data
  35. Small data manifesto
  36. Separating storage compute duckdb
  37. The future of bi bi as code duckdb impact
  38. Analyze json data using sql
  39. Pg duckdb release
  40. Motherduck window functions in sql
  41. The simple joys of scaling up
  42. Duckdb tutorial for beginners
  43. Getting started ducklake table format
  44. Unstructured analysis tensorlake motherduck
  45. Postgres duckdb options
  46. Bigquery to duckdb motherduck
  47. Stop paying the complexity tax
  48. Big data is dead
  49. Motherduck data warehouse
  50. Estuary streaming cdc replication
  51. Why web developers should care about analytical databases
  52. Six reasons duckdb slaps
  53. Perf is not enough
  54. Building data applications with motherduck
  55. Motherduck vercel marketplace native integration
  56. Motherduck dbt pipelines
  57. Future casting the modern data stack
  58. Duckdb enterprise 5 key categories
  59. 15 companies duckdb in prod
  60. Semantic layer duckdb tutorial
  61. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter december 2024
  62. Langchain sql agent duckdb motherduck
  63. DuckDB 1.5 features I am excited about
  64. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter january 2025
  65. Duckdb puppygraph graph model on motherduck
  66. Fall events recap 2025
  67. Introducing motherduck for business analytics
  68. Motherduck in europe
  69. Duckdb the great federator
  70. Announcing motherduck general availability data warehousing with duckdb
  71. Streamkap mysql to motherduck
  72. Scaling duckdb with ducklings
  73. Ducklake architecture deep dive
  74. Dev diary building mcp
  75. Motherduck agent skills
  76. Give your agents write access
  77. Duck dive and answer
  78. Claudeception inside the mind of an analytics agent
  79. Dashboards as code dives
  80. Claude code plus dives equals any data ui
  81. Flights agent native ingest
  82. Obsidian rag duckdb motherduck
  83. Analytics agents
  84. Self hosting duckdb road to production
  85. Robust data pipelines with ai
  86. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter july 2026
  87. Who needs a semantic layer anyway
  88. Developer dad does disney
  89. Announcing data outpost conference
  90. Context belongs in the warehouse
  91. Figma for agents airflow creator maxime beauchemin
  92. Geospatial for beginner duckdb spatial motherduck
  93. Openai just made analytics 10x cheaper
  94. Agent signup cloud data warehouse
  95. Agent signup
  96. Vibe code data apps with vercel v0 and MotherDuck
  97. Duckdb ecosystem newsletter august 2026
  98. Scalable data apps with motherduck and replit
  99. AI writes the semantic layer
  100. Motherduck acquires tower
  101. Duckdb amazon
  102. Motherduck cli announcement
  103. Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB
  104. Introducing embedded dives