Coffee chat with Carlos Chacon
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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! SQL Data Partners: Follow Carlos on LinkedIn: Aaron Bertrand Podcast: 2025 State of the Database Landscape: PostgreSQL Book: Robert Treat: Check out other Simple Talks episodes at
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Moving to a New Database Platform
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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 Having a Part-time Database Administrator Can Help Improve your Bottom Line (Denny Cherry): Check out other Simple Talks episodes at
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Louis Flies Solo
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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! Check out other Simple Talks episodes at Download Redgate’s 2025 State of the Database Landscape report at Find Louis on: X: Web: Visit Simple Talk at
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Redgate Advocates: Their Origin Stories
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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. Check out other Simple Talks episodes at Connect with the hosts: Kellyn Gorman Web: BlueSky: Grant Fritchey Web: X: Steve Jones X: Web: Ryan Booz X: Web:
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Coffee chat with Kellyn Gorman
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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: Kellyn’s Bluesky: Check out other episodes of Simple Talks, including the Coffee...
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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
info_outlineThis 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/
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/
For more Simple Talks episodes, visit https://rd.gt/3TJocZ9