Grant Fritchey, Author at Redgate

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Grant Fritchey works for Redgate Software as a Devops Advocate. Grant has worked for more than thirty years in IT as a developer and a DBA. He has built systems from the major enterprise to distributed systems to small boutique companies. Grant writes articles on various data related topics for SQL Server Central and SimpleTalk. He is the author of multiple books including, SQL Server Execution Plans and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning. Grant currently serves on the Board of Directors of the PASS organization, a non-profit professional organization for data professionals. He develops and presents complete structured learning plans to teach Azure, AWS, and other data related topics to developers and other IS personnel. Grant is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an AWS Community Builder.

Deploying PostgreSQL DB Changes Through AWS Developer Tools Using Flyway

The fundamentals of deploying database changes through Flyway are pretty simple. At the root of it all, there are two words you need to know: This of course comes with a whole set of assumptions. You’ve set up your configuration to connect to the correct database being just one of them. And that’s talking... Read more

The Benefits and Challenges of Managing Hybrid Estates

Updated September, 2023 – More and more organizations are migrating their data to the cloud but the majority are likely to end up managing hybrid estates, with some data managed through a cloud provider and some managed locally. This leads to some unique issues, especially around monitoring and services. If the objective of migrating... Read more

Redgate and the Cloud: How we can help you

*Updated for 2023* For many of us, our cloud undertakings are growing and growing, and it can be dauting to embark on a cloud migration initiative of any scale. The good news is, Redgate is right there with you. Many of our tools already work with the cloud. Also, we work with the cloud.... Read more

What are the biggest challenges organizations face in their digital transformation efforts?

As part of a recent Redgate Summit which focused on digital transformation and data modernization, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Pramod Sadalage, a Director at Thoughtworks. There, and I’m quoting here, he enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. He’s usually sent in... Read more

DevOps 101: Unlocking the value of frequent deployments

In this DevOps 101 series, I introduce the concept of DevOps and talk about how you can include the database as a natural partner. In the previous post in the series, I discussed how automation introduces faster and more frequent deployments as a key benefit. We’re now going to take a deep dive into... Read more

DevOps 101: The role of automation in Database DevOps

This is the fifth part in the DevOps 101 series and it’s time to talk about automation. Before we get into it, I just want to recap what DevOps is. Microsoft’s Donovan Brown sums it up nicely in a single sentence: DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery... Read more

DevOps 101: Introducing Database DevOps

In this fourth session in our DevOps 101 series, we’re going to delve into Database DevOps specifically. But before we get going, I just want to do a quick check to make sure we’re all on the same page. Donovan Brown’s definition of DevOps seems to have been adopted by almost everyone nowadays because... Read more

Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy

I’ve written before about building your own monitoring systems versus buying a monitoring tool like Redgate Monitor. I talked about the time that someone tasked with managing and maintaining data gets back in their day when they purchase a monitoring solution. However, that’s not where the business focuses. The business frequently wants to know... Read more

DevOps 101: How to kick-start your DevOps initiative

This is the third part of my DevOps 101 series, so before we get going, let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve covered previously In DevOps 101: What, who, why, and how, I talked about how the definition from Microsoft’s Donovan Brown encapsulates DevOps succinctly as: The union of people, process, and products,... Read more

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