Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Ed Pollack (Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community champion) sat down with Steve Jones at PASS Summit 2025 to discuss many topics including.

Inspired by SQL Prompt’s ability to color‑code SSMS tabs, Phil Factor embarks on a mission to get Flyway to warn you, in big bold colors, which environment you are about to migrate.

A look at Redgate Test Data Manager and the latest AI custom dataset functionality.

Bringing together a host of traditional and modern powerful test data management capabilities, Redgate Test Data Manager allows users to.

Redgate Monitor helps you manage your entire database estate from a single pane of glass. Monitor SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB – on premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Get database observability to proactively mitigate potential risks with instant problem diagnosis and customizable alerting. No downtime, customer complaints, or wake-up calls at 3am.

Burning through cash after a cloud migration? Hidden CPU overprovisioning could be to blame. Tony and Tonie unpack Greg White’s Redgate Monitor playbook for spotting waste and downsizing safely.

Simple Talk Podcast – Coffee Chat with John Sterrett Description: Steve chats with John Sterrett, CEO of ProcureSQL, about his true love for data from a young age, how SQL Saturday and community events inspired him to start his own company, ProcureSQL’s use of AI to provide more value, and the impacts of work on relationships - plus much more!

Steve sits down with Lee Brownhill, who by day helps clients optimize their SQL workloads in Azure and AWS at Cloud Rede, but is also a Redgate Ambassador, blogger and aspiring speaker. Lee talks about his interest in giving back to the SQL Server community through writing and speaking, having taken inspiration from others online and in-person at events, and naturally the conversation also touches upon AI, the cloud, and more.

Want Flyway to run checks on all your staging databases? Or switch migration logic based on RDBMS version? TOML-based environments and resolvers make it simpler, and more secure.

In this episode, we're remembering Andrew Pearce aka Phil Factor, and unpacking a brilliant article he wrote digging into why database deployments sometimes go bad.