Grant Fritchey
DevOps Advocate at Redgate Software
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.
Upcoming presentations
Disaster Recovery and High Available for Postgres in Azure
Taking advantage of the service you pay for
One of the chief benefits of moving to a cloud provider like Azure for hosting your Postgres databases is the enhanced disaster recovery and high availability. This session will outline the benefits you can realize by hosting your PostgreSQL databases within the Azure platform. You'll learn how Azure automatically protects your databases through backups and point-in-time recovery. You'll also l...
Past presentations
You Need a PostgreSQL Restore Plan, Not a Backup Plan
You are only as good as your last restore
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...
Mar 21 2025
You Should Be Standing Here: Learning to Present Sessions
Learning to present helps your career
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...
Mar 20 2025
Query Performance Monitoring for the Absolute Beginner
Learn the tools to help your systems run faster
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...
Mar 19 2025