Today, all the hosts (Louis Davidson, Ryan Booz, Kellyn Gorman, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) get together for a festive adjacent discussion about AI, content, books, community, vector, PIVOTing, observability, and we end up with a brief discussion on gluten-free gingerbread men (because we did!) All this, though absolutely none of us broke into song like a Hope/Crosby musical!

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In this Advochats episode of Simple Talks, we welcome a new Advocate to the podcast - Kellyn Gorman! And since Kellyn is the Oracle Advocate, this week's show focuses on how Oracle differs from other data platforms that the advocates have used.

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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.

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.

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.

Where to find Kevin:

CuratedSQL.com

LinkedIn: kevin-feasel-5047167

Twitter/X: @feaselkl

Blog: https://36chambers.wordpress.com/

User Group: https://www.meetup.com/tripass

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Ryan, Grant & Steve discuss all things AI, from driverless taxis in San Francisco and Redgate’s PromptAI software, to the current concerns around AI and the potential impact on the future workforce.

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Louis is joined by Redgate author, business owner and conference speaker Tonie Huizer for coffee and a chat. Tonie discusses how he got into technology, why he loves automation, and how speaking about whiskey has more in common with conference speaking than you may think. He also gives a taster of his upcoming PASS Data Community Summit sessions and teases an exciting new Simple Talk series for 2025.