State of the Database Landscape 2025
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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: For more Simple Talks, visit Connect with the hosts: Kellyn Gorman Web: BlueSky: Grant Fritchey Web: X: Steve Jones X: Web: Louis Davidson X: Web:
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Coffee chat with Erik Darling
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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: YouTube: Web: LinkedIn: TikTok: Redgate's 2025 State of the Database Landscape report: https://www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/ For more Simple Talks episodes, visit
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Introducing a new PostgreSQL book!
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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 More on the authors: Ryan Booz X: Web: Grant Fritchey: X: Web: For more podcast episodes visit
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Coffee chat with Scott Stauffer
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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: , and see our entire discussion on the topic! Scott can be followed or contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/scottstauffer/...
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Ending the Season Together
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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! For more episodes of Simple Talks, visit Check out Simple Talk at www.simple-talk.com
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Coffee chat with Mala Mahadevan
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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: Website:...
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How is Oracle different from other data platforms?
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In this Advochats episode of Simple Talks, we welcome a new Advocate to the podcast - Kellyn Gorman! And since Kellyn is the Oracle Advocate, this week's show focuses on how Oracle differs from other data platforms that the advocates have used. More episodes of Simple Talks can be found at: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/podcasts/ Check out Simple Talk at: www.simple-talk.com
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Coffee chat with Aaron Bertrand
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On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis hangs out with Aaron Bertrand and talks hockey, curling, football, hybrid cars and even some technology. One of the big (non-sports) themes of the episode is that Aaron is a problem-solver and is interested in how issues can be overcome with technology - even if his focus now and in the conceivable future is being a top-level expert with some of the aspects of SQL Server.
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Data masking and subsetting
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What’s data masking? What’s subsetting? Get past the jargon as Redgate advocates Grant, Steve & Ryan break down these processes, explain why they’re important, how they work, and their personal experiences of both.
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Coffee chat with Kevin Feasel
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On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis sits down with Kevin Feasel and talks database design, conferences, battle tech games, and a lot more. Kevin has one of the most interesting origin stories so far in this series. He is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and is the model of a great member of the data community. Also on the podcast, Louis learns a few new words and phrases, and for those of you watching on video, you can see him accidentally take himself out of the video a few times as well. Where to find Kevin: CuratedSQL.com LinkedIn:...
info_outlineSteve, 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.
Check out Grant and Ryan’s PostgreSQL articles on Simple Talk:
Learning PostgreSQL with Grant - https://rd.gt/3AxVZ0B
Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL by Ryan Booz https://rd.gt/3XcGKTQ
...and for Simple Talk’s extensive SQL Server content - https://rd.gt/3MiPRMw