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Chris Baker, DBA at Lightico, and Sofia Phillips, SQL Server DBA & Developer at Weightmans, explain why test data management is the biggest challenge they’re facing in their DBA roles currently.

Chris Unwin discusses the challenges of test data management and how Redgate can solve them. They highlight the difficulties in finding data, discovering PII data, and implementing protective measures like masking. They emphasize the importance of automating these processes to improve feedback cycles and speed up delivery.

Chris Unwin, Senior Solutions Engineer at Keboola, and Sofia Phillips, SQL Server DBA & Developer at Weightmans, share why they are excited to hear more about Redgate’s new Test Data Manager solution.

The 2025 State of the Database Landscape Report sheds light on the current state of database management and offers valuable insights into how organizations can navigate and simplify the growing complexities.

Tonie and Tony discuss a new article on dynamic alerts, which uses machine learning to adapt alert thresholds to normal patterns of behavior. They discuss how this works in Redgate Monitor, and how it helps increase alert relevance, allowing teams to focus on real performance issues.

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 when them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

Tony and Tonie discuss a new article by Denny Cherry, who has delved into some of the security monitoring features in Redgate Monitor that allow it to provide 24x7 surveillance of performance and security data, across all monitored databases and servers.

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.

Flyway's JSON output provides a lot of useful information about the migrations files, database, and version changes, in a format that automated processes can read and use. This article demonstrates how we can crate a Flyway callback that uses this JSON output to automatically send simple, human-readable notifications of what happened during a migration, helping developers stay informed about version changes that could impact their work.

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show the pair discuss using PowerShell-based tokenization to compare two SQL migration files. How it ignores non-functional changes like comments or formatting and pinpoints the first meaningful change in SQL logic, providing detailed feedback on its location and nature. Make sure to subscribe to our channel if you want to watch more from Tony & Tonie.