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Grant Fritchey

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.

Grant Fritchey

10 December 2020

Grant Fritchey

10 December 2020

Challenges to Database DevOps: Which Do you Deploy First, the Database or the Application?

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Should You Deploy Database Changes Before or After Application Changes? Another great question came out during the Challenges to Implementing Database Devops that I’d like to try to address here. This question is pretty simple, although the answer might be a little complicated: Should you deploy databases changes before... Read more

Grant Fritchey

23 November 2020

Grant Fritchey

23 November 2020

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Where To Start With a Separate Team?

There were so many questions asked at a recent presentation that I just didn’t have time to answer them all. However, many of them were really interesting, so I promised to address them over time as blog posts. The next question is: I manage an ETL team that supports highly customized code for all... Read more

Grant Fritchey

18 November 2020

Grant Fritchey

18 November 2020

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Dealing With Hotfixes

I recently took part in a panel discussion at the PASS Virtual Summit 2020 entitled: Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps. The interaction with the attendees was stupendous. We received all sorts of questions. Most of them were answered during the event, but a few were not. I’m going to create a series of blog... Read more