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. Web: ErikDarling.com.

In this episode, the pair discuss a new article from Phil Factor that drills into the basics of how to compare databases and generate schema models and migration scripts using Flyway Enterprise CLI.

Get the latest insights from our 2025 report, learn new approaches for professional development and gain valuable knowledge to stay ahead in your career. In this video, you'll hear from our speakers Kellyn Gorman, Steve Jones, and Mri Pandit. Since 2017, Redgate has surveyed thousands of global practitioners each year to examine how our industry is changing, and provide advice and guidance for organizations and database professionals alike.

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.

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.

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.