The motherduck (md) extension allows connecting to MotherDuck, a cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB.
Installing and Loading
The motherduck extension will be transparently autoinstalled and autoloaded on first use from the official extension repository.
If you would like to install and load it manually, run:
INSTALL motherduck;
LOAD motherduck;
Usage
You can connect to MotherDuck by executing the following command:
ATTACH 'md:';
MotherDuck Documentation
For more details, see the MotherDuck documentation.
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