The Simple Talk Podcast

Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz discuss moving your code from one database platform to another, highlighting some of the real benefits and concerns that you need to be aware of.

Download Redgate's 2025 State of the Database Landscape report at www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all

Having a Part-time Database Administrator Can Help Improve your Bottom Line (Denny Cherry): https://www.dcac.com/2025/02/06/having-a-part-time-database-administrator-can-help-improve-your-bottom-line/

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In this special solo episode, host Louis Davidson stays 'full screen' for the entire show and answers the very questions he asks of others! Where it all started, what tech he loves, the one obvious thing he loves to do outside of working with databases (which has been mentioned before)...it's all covered here!

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Download Redgate's 2025 State of the Database Landscape report at www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all

Find Louis on: X: https://x.com/drsql Web: https://drsql.org

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The Redgate Advocates (Kellyn Gorman, Ryan Booz, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) sat down at the PASS Summit last year and spent some time telling how they went from working directly in tech, to helping others work with tech - both inside and outside of Redgate and their products.

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Connect with the hosts:

Kellyn Gorman Web: https://dbakevlar.com BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social

Grant Fritchey Web: https://scarydba.com X: https://x.com/GFritchey

Steve Jones X: https://x.com/Way0utwest Web: https://voiceofthedba.com/

Ryan Booz X: https://x.com/ryanbooz Web: https://www.softwareandbooz.com/

In this Coffee Chat episode, Louis sits down with Redgate Advocate Kellyn Gorman. Kellyn tells her origin story of becoming a leader in the data community, which is as inspiring as it is interesting, and the conversation also covers security (and the inherent trust issues data professionals have!), fact-checking ourselves, aging DBAs, Lego obsession, and Raspberry Pi.

Also, ever wondered why Kellyn's social media handle is dbakevlar? Listen in to find out!

Kellyn's website: https://dbakevlar.com

Kellyn's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social

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In this episode of Simple Talks, Louis, Steve, Kellyn and Grant get together to discuss the recently released State of the Database Landscape Report 2025, delving into topics around security, professional development and AI.

Download the full report here: https://www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all

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Connect with the hosts:

Kellyn Gorman Web: https://dbakevlar.com BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social

Grant Fritchey Web: https://scarydba.com X: https://x.com/GFritchey

Steve Jones X: https://x.com/Way0utwest Web: https://voiceofthedba.com/

Louis Davidson X: https://x.com/drsql Web: https://drsql.org

This week's show is with "definitely not a folk music artist" Erik (with a k) Darling from Darling Data. Erik weaves a tale of a decidedly non-data focused start to his career, solving the same problems over and over, spicy foods, family life, all while dropping some great names along the way.

https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-10-sqlsaturday1105/

X: @erikdarlingdata

YouTube: ErikDarlingData

Web: ErikDarling.com

LinkedIn: darling-data

TikTok: @darling.data

Redgate's 2025 State of the Database Landscape report: https://www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/

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In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down with them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

For more about the book, visit https://rd.gt/3EsLdef

More on the authors:

Ryan Booz

X: https://x.com/ryanbooz

Web: https://www.softwareandbooz.com/

Grant Fritchey:

X: https://x.com/GFritchey

Web: https://www.scarydba.com/

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It is the start of season 2, and we are kicking it off with Scott Stauffer talking about coffee, video games, the glorious innovation of technology over our years, guide dogs, AI, and so much more.

Without giving away too much, in the show there is a discussion about guide dogs. This part of the recording went on too long, so it was cut for the main show, but as our first Simple Talks Extra, if you want to see a more complete version of this section, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BiQamHg8Go, and see our entire discussion on the topic!

Scott can be followed or contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/scottstauffer/

Guide dog organization mentioned: https://bcandalbertaguidedogs.com/

SQL Bits presentation (Service Dogs in the Cabin - Web Scraping Puppy Data with Microsoft Fabric): https://sqlbits.com/sessions/event2024/Service_Dogs_in_the_Cabin-Web_Scraping_Puppy_Data_with_Microsoft_Fabric-1st_Leg https://sqlbits.com/sessions/event2024/Service_Dogs_in_the_Cabin-Web_Scraping_Puppy_Data_with_Microsoft_Fabric-2nd_Leg

Today, all the hosts (Louis Davidson, Ryan Booz, Kellyn Gorman, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) get together for a festive adjacent discussion about AI, content, books, community, vector, PIVOTing, observability, and we end up with a brief discussion on gluten-free gingerbread men (because we did!) All this, though absolutely none of us broke into song like a Hope/Crosby musical!

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In this coffee chat episode of Simple Talks, Louis spends nearly an hour chatting with SQL Server community champion Mala Mahadevan. Learn how Mala got into computing despite her passion for horticulture, her favorite thing about working in technology, and a love for national parks. And stick around to the end where Mala and Louis share their frustrations about a SQL Server feature they both love but really want to see enhanced, so it will be a great feature worthy of use by everyone, everywhere.

You can find Mala online on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamahadevan/

Website: https://curiousaboutdata.com/

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