Ryan Booz: The State of the Database in 2025 - Episode 333

Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocate, developer, DBA, and product manager for over 20 years, primarily working with time-series data on PostgreSQL and the Microsoft Data Platform.

Ryan is a long-time DBA, starting with MySQL and Postgres in the late '90s. He spent more than 15 years working with SQL Server before returning to PostgreSQL full-time in 2018. He's at the top of his game when learning something new about the data platform or teaching others about the technology he loves.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:10] What made Ryan a database guy?

[6:11] CodeMash.

[6:58] Discovering the potential of SQL Server.

[12:02] The state of the database in 2025 and the things generalist developers should know.

[15:27] The challenge of interfacing between database types.

[19:57] Is Microsoft Fabric the future?

[22:44] Postgres for .NET developers.

[24:46] Nuances of migrating from SQL Server to Postgres.

[26:01] Postgres resources for data professionals.

[35:29] Postgres and its innovative edge.

[38:30] What is a vector database?