About
Grant Fritchey is a Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder with over 30 years’ experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. Grant works with multiple data platforms including SQL Server and PostgreSQL as well as multiple cloud platforms. He has also developed in VB, VB.NET, C#, and Java. Grant writes books for Apress and Simple-Talk and most recently published "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional." Grant presents at conferences and user groups, large and small, all over the world. He joined Redgate Software as a product advocate in January 2011.
Grant Fritchey has presented the following presentations
You Need a PostgreSQL Restore Plan, Not a Backup Plan
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Postgres Conference 2025
You are only as good as your last restore
presented by Grant Fritchey
Over and over, you'll hear the need to have a plan in place for backing up your PostgreSQL databases. However, this truly has things completely backwards. The most important thing is not your ability to backup a database. Instead, your most important ability will be to restore a database. This session will explore the concepts that will enable you to create a viable restore plan for your Postgr...
more Fri 21 2025 Ops
You Should Be Standing Here: Learning to Present Sessions
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Postgres Conference 2025
Learning to present helps your career
presented by Grant Fritchey
You should know how to present a session. In fact, you should be standing up on the stage where I will be standing while presenting this session. It's not about becoming an industry expert, writing books or recording videos. No, it's about learning how to take an idea to your management team and convince them that you can help the business. It's about teaching new techniques to your peers. It's...
more Thu 20 2025 Professional Development
Query Performance Monitoring for the Absolute Beginner
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Postgres Conference 2025
Learn the tools to help your systems run faster
presented by Grant Fritchey
You may know that your database is slow, or, you may be told that there are performance problems in the database. However, how do you know where the performance problems are? Which queries are running the slowest? Why are they running slow? This session will take you through the fundamental tools that are built right into PostgreSQL that can help you answer all these questions. We'll start with...
more Wed 19 2025 Dev