This week's show is with "definitely not a folk music artist" Erik (with a k) Darling from Darling Data. Erik weaves a tale of a decidedly non-data focused start to his career, solving the same problems over and over, spicy foods, family life, all while dropping some great names along the way.

SQL Saturday NYC

X: @erikdarlingdata

YouTube: ErikDarlingData

Web: ErikDarling.com

LinkedIn: darling-data

TikTok: @darling.data

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In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down with them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

For more about the book, visit https://rd.gt/3EsLdef

More on the authors:

Ryan Booz

X: https://x.com/ryanbooz

Web: https://www.softwareandbooz.com/

Grant Fritchey:

X: https://x.com/GFritchey

Web: https://www.scarydba.com/

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It is the start of season 2, and we are kicking it off with Scott Stauffer talking about coffee, video games, the glorious innovation of technology over our years, guide dogs, AI, and so much more.

Without giving away too much, in the show there is a discussion about guide dogs. This part of the recording went on too long, so it was cut for the main show, but as our first Simple Talks Extra, if you want to see a more complete version of this section, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BiQamHg8Go, and see our entire discussion on the topic!

Scott can be followed or contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/scottstauffer/

Guide dog organization mentioned: https://bcandalbertaguidedogs.com/

SQL Bits presentation (Service Dogs in the Cabin - Web Scraping Puppy Data with Microsoft Fabric): https://sqlbits.com/sessions/event2024/Service_Dogs_in_the_Cabin-Web_Scraping_Puppy_Data_with_Microsoft_Fabric-1st_Leg
https://sqlbits.com/sessions/event2024/Service_Dogs_in_the_Cabin-Web_Scraping_Puppy_Data_with_Microsoft_Fabric-2nd_Leg