Joshua Higginbotham, Senior Architect at Centric Consulting, shares what sets Redgate Monitor apart. Redgate Monitor provides context-rich diagnostic insights to maximize cloud database health and performance while ensuring a consistent monitoring experience across your on-prem and cloud database estate.

Louis is joined by Redgate author, business owner and conference speaker Tonie Huizer for coffee and a chat. Tonie discusses how he got into technology, why he loves automation, and how speaking about whiskey has more in common with conference speaking than you may think. He also gives a taster of his upcoming PASS Data Community Summit sessions and teases an exciting new Simple Talk series for 2025.

Steve, Grant and Ryan return to Simple Talks to discuss SQL Server and Postgres. The advocates share their experiences with both systems, highlighting what works and what doesn’t. From time series and Query Store to extended events, tooling and log shipping - this is a quick-fire deep dive into the pros, cons and differences between the two. There’s also conversation around making the transition from one system to the other, and Ryan reflects on his challenging introduction to Postgres…on the first day of a new job.

Kelly Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, shares the biggest benefits as well as drawbacks of AI in the Industry. Test Data Management is the process of providing DevOps teams with test data to evaluate the performance and functionality of applications.

Host Louis Davidson is joined by regular Simple Talk contributor and community speaker Jason Romans for coffee and a chat. From his early days owning a Commodore 64, juggling retail work with his studies and becoming an ‘accidental DBA’, all the way up to his current position as a Business Intelligence engineer, Jason has quite a few stories to tell. Other topics discussed include a shared love of theme parks, the travel benefits of attending conferences, and the challenges of sharing a name with ‘JSON’…

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We recently sat down with James Phillips, Senior IT Manager, to talk about test data management (TDM) and the growing attention it’s getting from the C-suite.

Ryan Booz, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey discuss the evolution of Database DevOps, from its origins to its significance today. They discuss what they were doing at the time of its inception as a concept and how it impacted their day-to-day, while also looking at the various pieces that make up the Database DevOps puzzle – from automation to testing - and where it may go next.

Tracy Boggiano, Database Architect for Sound Physicians, explains how SQL Compare improves productivity.

Frank Geisler, CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, shares his favourite feature of SQL prompt. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..