Grant Fritchey

More organizations are adding PostgreSQL to their technology stack than ever before. The challenge is that they are not immediately replacing their existing technology, which means more and more people need to understand both SQL Server and PostgreSQL. This session is explicitly designed to...

When a DBA does the job well, very little happens: no outage, no failed audit, no surprise on the cloud bill. That work is easy to overlook, especially when budgets are under scrutiny and the estate keeps growing. Redgate's 2026 State of the Database Landscape found that 84% of organizations now...

The Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education has just released the first community owned, vendor neutral, certification for PostgreSQL. In October, the very first testing sessions were held at pgConf.EU in Valencia Spain. Your intrepid presenters both took this test. Come to this session to see...

More organizations are adding PostgreSQL to their technology stack than ever before. The challenge is that they are not immediately replacing their existing technology, which means more and more people need to understand both SQL Server and PostgreSQL. This session is explicitly designed to...

As organizations have chased speed through AI, multi-platform estates, and Cloud, database complexity has outpaced the practices needed to manage it. Flexibility has increased, but oversight, confidence, and control have weakened. So how do you regain control in increasingly complex database landscapes? Join industry experts Monica Morehouse, Matt Gordon, Thomas Kronawitter and Grant Fritchey in discussion with Redgate’s Louise Domeisen, to unpack the key findings from the 2026 State of the Database Landscape report. You’ll hear first-hand experience and actionable tips from the panel on the key report topics including: • The defining tension of 2026: organizations are losing control as everything accelerates. • Structural complexity is rising again, making control harder than ever. • AI adoption is exploding, landing on top of unstable data, security, and governance foundations. • Risks are shifting from technology to ownership, structure, and decision-making. • To regain control, organizations must fix the data foundations that everything else depends on. You'll walk away with a clearer understanding of where your organization sits in this landscape and practical steps you can take to start regaining control.

More and more organizations are hosting their data across a broader set of tools. One of the fastest growing data storage tools is PostgreSQL. Many developers and data pros familiar with SQL Server are now being required to add this new tool to their toolset. This session will outline the differences and similarities between PostgreSQL and SQL Server. We'll cover topics like backups, queries, monitoring and query tuning. If you already know SQL Server, the knowledge you'll glean from this session will start you on your journey to also knowing PostgreSQL.

More organizations are adding PostgreSQL to their technology stack than ever before. The challenge is that they are not immediately replacing their existing technology, which means more and more people need to understand both SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

Query tuning has always been a challenge. There is always so much to learn and understand in order to identify where your bottlenecks may be and then know how to address them.

More organizations are adding PostgreSQL to their technology stack than ever before. The challenge is that they are not immediately replacing their existing technology, which means more and more people need to understand both SQL Server and PostgreSQL. This session is explicitly designed to...

This session focuses on efficient, responsible use of AI in the modern workplace, highlighting where AI adds measurable value and where it doesn’t. You’ll learn how to think critically about AI features, how to avoid over-automation, and how to use AI to amplify expertise rather than dilute it....

Join Bob Ward and friends to learn every aspect of SQL Server 2025 including AI built-in, Developer features, all of the core engine, Azure Arc, Fabric Mirroring, and more.

Join Bob Ward and friends to learn every aspect of SQL Server 2025 including AI built-in, Developer features, all of the core engine, Azure Arc, Fabric Mirroring, and more.

AI is everywhere in today’s world. It’s embedded into tools, workflows, and platforms and yet according to MIT, 95% of generative AI pilots are failing ( https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/ ) How often is AI genuinely solving problems, or is it just the latest layer of complexity wrapped in hype?

Query tuning has always been a challenge. There is always so much to learn and understand in order to identify where your bottlenecks may be and then know how to address them.

In this session, I will explain how you can use the Live Data Window within SQL Server Management Studio in order to work with Extended Events data. Extended Events data is output as XML and that can make it hard to deal with. However, through the use of the Live Data Window, you can avoid the XML entirely. In fact, with the Live Data Window, you can do a lot of things with your data that just isn't possible without a lot of time programming. Please come to this session and I'll show you how to view your data, sort and aggregate the data, all on the fly in this demo-heavy presentation. You can save time, avoid the XML, and gain new functionality, all through better knowledge of the Live Data Window in SSMS.

One of the first challenges you’ll face when you decide to address poor query performance is identifying which query you should focus on. While you can simply wait for the people using your application to complain, a more proactive approach will serve you better.

Redgate’s State of the Database Landscape report reflects on where we are and shines a light on where we’re headed. Whether you’re shaping strategy in the C-suite or building solutions on the front lines, this keynote with Kelly Gorman and Grant Fritchey will show you how the trends, insights,...

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?

Join Grant Fritchey and Uwe Ricken as they discuss the critical role of automation in ensuring data compliance. They will delve into a range of topics, including how automated systems can streamline audit processes, reduce human error, and enhance data integrity.

Join Grant Fritchey and Uwe Ricken as they discuss the critical role of automation in ensuring data compliance. They will delve into a range of topics, including how automated systems can streamline audit processes, reduce human error, and enhance data integrity.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage these days. You can find all sorts of information about how to build your own AI, consume your PostgreSQL data and more.

Identifying which queries are running the slowest, or using the most resources is relatively well documented. However, once you identify the query you need to fix, what are you supposed to do next?

Database DevOps has come of age. As a key technical practice which can contribute to the successful implementation of DevOps, it stops the database being a bottleneck and makes releases more efficient.

When you make the decision to use one of the many Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings for hosting your PostgreSQL databases, there are a number of things, good and bad, you should be aware of. This session will walk you through what it means to host your PostgreSQL databases on the major cloud vendors.

Getting started reading execution plans is very straight forward. The real issue is understanding the plans as they grow in size and complexity. This session will show you how to explore the nooks and crannies of an execution plan in order to more easily find the necessary information needed to make what the plan is telling you crystal clear. The information presented here will better empower you to traverse the execution plans you’ll see on your own servers. That knowledge will make it possible to more efficiently and accurately tune and troubleshoot your queries.

As the popularity of PostgreSQL continues to soar, many companies are exploring ways of migrating their application database over. At Redgate Software, we recently added PostgreSQL as an optional data store for SQL Monitor, our flagship monitoring application, after nearly 18 years of being backed exclusively by SQL Server.

PostgreSQL can be difficult to troubleshoot when the pressure is on without the right knowledge and tools. Knowing where to find the information you need to improve performance is central to your ability to act quickly and solve problems.

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, an MVP or an AWS Community Builder. 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 about expanding your own knowledge on a topic as you prepare a session, present it, and then answer questions. There are very good, career driven, reasons for you to learn to present. This session will go over how to put together a session. From choosing meaningful titles to putting together abstracts, you'll get the information you need to get started. We'll also cover how to put together a session, demonstrations, and more. We'll also cover how to rehearse to get ready for your session. Finally, we'll cover giving the session, handling questions, hecklers and more. You should be standing at the front of the room, giving your own session. Please, come here, learn why, and learn how. It will help you in your career.

One of the first challenges you’ll face when you decide to address poor query performance is identifying which query you should focus on. While you can simply wait for the people using your application to complain, a more proactive approach will serve you better.

This session is specifically designed to inform you, the DBA, about the tools and language I’m giving your developers in order for them to communicate their needs.

Too many people have looked at Extended Events, seen what looks like a horrible interface, heard about the XML, and have subsequently run away. This session is here to show you how to effectively use Extended Events to monitor your query performance, and more, in an efficient and useful way. The interface for Extended Events isn't bad, just grossly misunderstood. After you attend this session, you'll be able to easily do things that you've never been able to do with Trace. You need a more efficient query metrics tool, and it's waiting for you in Extended Events.

Query tuning within SQL Server can be a tough skill to master. The new tooling released with SQL Server 2016 and 2017 changes how you identify poorly performing queries, troubleshoot their behavior and tune the queries, all a little easier. This workshop teaches new techniques for tuning queries using all the new tools introduced in SQL Server 2016 and 2017. You'll be able to put this knowledge to work immediately, not only in your 2016 or better instances but also in your Azure SQL Database databases. You will be tuning your queries faster and more accurately using the new tools available.

One of the challenges to automating the deployment of your full stack has always been the database. From getting the database into and out of source control to getting the scripts to run in the right order and ending up with managing all that data, databases present a challenge. However, with modern tooling, we can overcome that challenge and add databases back into the complete automation of...

Finally, it's become easy for SQL Server developers and DBAs to use containers to speed up software development and testing. Containers have been around for more than 30 years, and at last they have become a great tool for Microsoft data professionals.

Most organizations are under pressure to speed up the software delivery cycle, whether that’s to respond more quickly to the needs of the business, the needs of your customers or just to keep up with the competition. Unfortunately the database is commonly considered a bottleneck.

While the Azure platform provides built-in safety mechanisms, these are not always well understood. Further, a good architect will ensure redundancy even within an already protected system.