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.

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show, the pair discuss how Environment Variables make interactive use of Flyway much easier, and how they are essential when developing callback scripts. This article explains the range of configuration details you can provide and how, and demos a PowerShell script to auto-convert the parameter values stored in Flyway.conf files into environment variables.

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.

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show, we discuss how Redgate Monitor helps teams manage database incidents efficiently, by providing the right data to the right people, at each stage of a tiered incident response system. With fewer distractions from routine issues, specialist staff can focus on core tasks while teams resolve problems faster and prevent future disruptions.

Today, more than 200,000 people globally, including 92% of the Fortune 100, trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple software. About Us: Redgate offers end-to-end Database DevOps to help organizations streamline software development and get value from their data faster. Redgate’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere.

Struggling with inconsistent and unrealistic test data? Tony and Tonie discuss a new article by Khang Chan, a developer at Redgate, explaining how deterministic data masking ensures sensitive data stays protected while maintaining data integrity and reproducibility — critical for reliable testing and development work.

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.

We’re excited to share Flyway Pipelines with you, a new service available in preview for all Flyway users of our Community, Teams and Enterprise editions to view the health and history of their database changes through a single pane of glass.

Tony and Tonie discuss a Phil Factor article that explains how the Flyway CLI installation and upgrade process works on Windows and Linux, and how we can make it simpler and less time-consuming using a bit of PowerShell automation, or by running Flyway from a Docker container, or finally by using a package manager.