MotherDuck

IP RESTRICTION

Make sure to allow traffic from one of the Paradime IPs in your firewall depending on the data location selected.

👉 See also: Paradime IP addresses.

Add Production Connection

To add the MotherDuck Production connection, go to account settings > connections, select Production Environment and enter the required fields.

Configuration for a MotherDuck Connection

In the Production connection setup screen, you will need to fill in the form with the details of the connection you want to use to run dbt™️ models against a MotherDuck database.

In this example we are connecting to s3 to read/write parquet files using an AWS access key and secret, these secrets can be stored in the user environment variable settings.

Field Details

Below are list of fields and example to create a connection.

Field	Description	Example	Level
Profile Name	The profile name set in your dbt_project.yaml . See more here.	dbt-motherduck	🏢 Workspace level
Target	The target name used to identify the connection. See more here.	prod	🏢 Workspace level
Profile Configuration	Here is where you can define the path to the MotherDuck database where the dbt™️ will run. Additionally you will be able to configure any supported DuckDB extensions by listing them in the extensions You can also set any additional DuckDB configuration options via the settings field, including options that are supported in any loaded extensions.	extensions: - httpfs - parquet path: md:jaffle_shop_prod settings: s3_access_key_id: '{{ env_var("S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID") }}' s3_region: '{{ env_var("S3_REGION", "us-west-1") }}' s3_secret_access_key: '{{ env_var("S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY") }}'	👥 User level
MotherDuck access token	The MotherDuck service token for authentication, see more here. This will be stored with the name motherduck_tokenin your workspace environment variables.	eyJhb.....0LXgyJFE695yrZx40UhAOF9JIFX8jNLf1WOAPO42Q
Schema	The default schema used to build dbt™️ objects at runtime.	dbt_prod	👥 User level
Threads	The number of threads used in this connection. See more here.	8	👥 User level

Authenticating to MotherDuck

When using MotherDuck we will need to persist your MotherDuck service token for authentication.

To create an access token:

• Go to the MotherDuck UI

• In top left click on organization name and then Settings

• Click + Create token

• Specify a name for the token that you'll recognize (like "Paradime")

• Choose whether you want the token to expire and then click on Create token

• Copy the access token token to your clipboard by clicking on the copy icon

For additional supporting docs, check MotherDuck Key features, MotherDuck SQL reference and DuckDB SQL reference.