Steve Jones sits down for a chat with Jeff Foster, Redgate’s Director of Technology & Innovation, at the company’s Cambridge, UK headquarters. The main subject covered is hugely topical – AI – with Jeff explaining how he feels about AI today and how it might impact us, and our jobs, in the future. You’ll also learn a bit more about Jeff’s background and Redgate’s ways of working.

Jeff’s recommended read is ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ by Dan Davies.

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To kick off Season 3, host Steve Jones is joined by Mike Bowers, Chief Architect at data technology company FairCom. The conversation includes an overview of Mike’s background, the work he does at FairCom, plenty of SQL talk, and advice on getting into the industry.

FairCom: https://www.faircom.com/

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Steve, Kellyn and Ryan sit down to discuss searching for a job in 2025. It was Ryan's last show that he recorded with the advocates before changing jobs which, interestingly enough, was not why the subject was chosen.

Ryan Booz: https://www.softwareandbooz.com/
Steve Jones: https://voiceofthedba.com/
Kellyn Gorman: https://dbakevlar.com/

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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 www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all

Having a Part-time Database Administrator Can Help Improve your Bottom Line (Denny Cherry): https://www.dcac.com/2025/02/06/having-a-part-time-database-administrator-can-help-improve-your-bottom-line/

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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!

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Download Redgate’s 2025 State of the Database Landscape report at www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all

Find Louis on:
X: https://x.com/drsql
Web: https://drsql.org

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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: https://dbakevlar.com

Kellyn’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social

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