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Pat Wright sits down with PostgreSQL veteran Hari Kiran – founder of OpenSource DB and co-organizer of PG Day Hyderabad, where this episode was recorded. They talk community building, mentoring the next generation of PostgreSQL contributors, and how a coffee chat with a friend turned into one of India’s biggest PostgreSQL events.

This session walks SQL Server developers through a complete database development workflow, from designing schema changes to testing and deploying them safely, using SQL Toolbelt Essentials. Most database teams don't struggle with SQL itself. The friction comes from process: schema changes made without a clear picture of what's already there, inconsistent code quality across a team, databases left outside version control, and deployments that feel riskier than they should. This session covers all four, with a live demo in SSMS for each one.

AI can write database schema changes in seconds, but nothing should reach production until it's validated, tested, and approved. In this discussion, Ken Muse (GitHub), Steve Jones (Redgate), and Huxley Kendall (Redgate) show how a governed pipeline keeps AI-generated database changes safe without slowing teams down.

AI can accelerate speed to market, but for IT leaders it also raises a harder question: can you prove how an AI-generated change reached production? Chris Yates (SVP, Managing Director of Data & Architecture, Republic Bank) explains how his team builds a full evidence trail for every change, using version-controlled deployment tooling like Redgate Flyway Enterprise, so governance becomes a guardrail rather than a brake on speed.

Huxley Kendell demonstrates how Redgate Flyway Enterprise enables safe, governed, and deterministic integration of AI and agentic workflows into database development processes. Local Workflows Huxley showcases how developers can use an MCP server to interact with Flyway Enterprise through local AI tools like Claude. Agentic Workflows The demo presents a future-ready, fully agentic workflow designed for enterprise automation through an autonomous copilot.

We catch up with Franck Pachot, a longtime database community figure who has moved through Oracle, CERN, Yugabyte, MongoDB and, most recently, the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft. Hear stories from Franck's varied career, learn what makes technical content genuinely useful to developers, how PostgreSQL's MVCC and extension model differs from Oracle's, and what's really going on with Microsoft's growing family of PostgreSQL offerings (Flexible Server, Horizon DB, and DocumentDB).

Even small Oracle ASM issues can become big database problems. Here's how to spot the warning signs early. Tony and Tonie discuss how Redgate Monitor custom metrics help teams close a common monitoring gap: surfacing Oracle ASM health and performance issues before storage pressure, rebalancing problems, or disk group failures become database incidents.

Faster SQL coding only releases engineering capacity if it doesn’t create more late-stage rework and deployment risk. Tony and Tonie discuss how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps teams keep speed and control aligned. Learn how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps SQL Server teams write better code faster, catch issues while the code is still being developed, and apply shared standards before changes reach review, test, or deployment.

How well do the Redgate Advocates know SQL Server? Find out in this quick-fire quiz, recorded live with an audience at SQL Saturday Day of Data Baton Rouge on July 18th!

A quick introduction to Redgate Flyway Enterprise.