The Simple Talk Podcast

Heidi Hasting joins host Kellyn Gorman for a chat featuring Microsoft Fabric, real-time intelligence, and a permissions trap that hands your data to a coworker's chatbot...Also: what MVP status really means, and where you should visit in South Australia (snakes included)! 
See Heidi's MVP profile here.

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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. 
For more on PG Day Hyderabad, head to https://2026.pghyd.in/ 
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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 Postgres'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). 
Find Franck's written content at https://franckpachot.github.io/pages/ 

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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! 

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Grant is joined by SQL Server veteran and long-time Microsoft MVP, Hugo Kornelis, to talk all things SQL Server query tuning, execution plans, and more. You'll hear about some of the problems Hugo's encountered during his consultancy career, what SQL Server has in common with a highway, and Hugo's thoughts on AI – plus much more.
Find Hugo at https://sqlserverfast.com/
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