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Simple Talks Podcast | S2 Episode 9 - Coffee chat with Carlos Chacon

Carlos Chacon of Marathon Consulting joins Louis for a lively chat about topics far and wide, from the community and podcasts to security and laundromats. Carlos has his own longstanding podcast and, as they came to the end of the interview, he turned the tables on Louis and made him answer some of his own questions too!

Sensitive Action Log in Redgate Monitor Enterprise

I’m excited to announce a new capability in Redgate Monitor Enterprise: the Sensitive Action Log. As infrastructure becomes more complex, it’s more critical than ever to maintain control over how your monitoring environment is configured and accessed. Whether you’re responding to internal compliance policies, preparing for audits, or simply tightening operational security, it’s key to understand who did what, when.

Reducing Database Complexity and Size using Subsetting | The Tony and Tonie Show

Getting realistic test data from large production databases can be a challenge, especially when you're trying to keep dev environments lightweight and secure. Tony and Tonie discuss how subsetting CLI in Redgate Test Data Manager will help you quickly generate smaller, fully representative subsets automatically.

Tracking Azure Elastic Jobs using Redgate Monitor

Redgate Monitor has long helped data teams and DBAs keep track of SQL Agent Jobs. Now, with version 14.0.53, it extends that visibility to Azure Elastic Jobs, giving you a centralized view of all your scheduled tasks, whether they run on SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instances, or Azure SQL Databases.

Simple Talks Podcast | S2 Episode 7 - Louis Flies Solo

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!

DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending

Oracle maintains its top-ranking spot; persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake highlight Q1 2025 rankings analysis. DB-Engines is today sharing Q1 analysis of the database industry rankings and top climbers. While Oracle has maintained its top-ranking spot as the most popular database for several years, we are seeing persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake, which has broken through to sixth place for the first time this quarter, overtaking Redis.