Shows
Simple TalksMoving to a New Database Platform Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz discuss moving your code from one database platform to another, highlighting some of the real benefits and concerns that you need to be aware of. Download Redgate’s 2025 State of the Database Landscape report at www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all Having a Part-time Database Administrator Can Help Improve your Bottom Line (Denny Cherry): https://www.dcac.com/2025/02/06/having-a-part-time-database-administrator-can-help-improve-your-bottom-line/ Check out other Simple Talks episodes at https://rd.gt/3TJocZ9 2025-05-0135 min
Simple TalksRedgate Advocates: Their Origin StoriesThe Redgate Advocates (Kellyn Gorman, Ryan Booz, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) sat down at the PASS Summit last year and spent some time telling how they went from working directly in tech, to helping others work with tech - both inside and outside of Redgate and their products. Check out other Simple Talks episodes at https://rd.gt/3TJocZ9 Connect with the hosts: Kellyn Gorman Web: https://dbakevlar.com BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social Grant Fritchey Web: https://scarydba.com X: https://x.com/GFr...2025-04-0323 min
Simple TalksState of the Database Landscape 2025In this episode of Simple Talks, Louis, Steve, Kellyn and Grant get together to discuss the recently released State of the Database Landscape Report 2025, delving into topics around security, professional development and AI. Download the full report here: https://www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mc-202501-t1-navigating-the-database-landscape-in-2025-report-gc-all For more Simple Talks, visit https://rd.gt/3TJocZ9 Connect with the hosts: Kellyn Gorman Web: https://dbakevlar.com BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dbakevlar.bsky.social Grant Fritchey2025-03-0631 min
Simple TalksIntroducing a new PostgreSQL book!In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down with them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more. For more about the book, visit https://rd.gt/3EsLdef More on the authors: Ryan Booz X: https://x.com/ryanbooz Web: https://www.softwareandbooz.com/ Grant Fritchey: X: https://x...2025-02-0633 min
Simple TalksEnding the Season TogetherToday, all the hosts (Louis Davidson, Ryan Booz, Kellyn Gorman, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) get together for a festive adjacent discussion about AI, content, books, community, vector, PIVOTing, observability, and we end up with a brief discussion on gluten-free gingerbread men (because we did!) All this, though absolutely none of us broke into song like a Hope/Crosby musical! For more episodes of Simple Talks, visit www.simple-talk.com/podcasts Check out Simple Talk at www.simple-talk.com 2024-12-1958 min
Azure & DevOps PodcastDatabase Hygiene: Grant Fritchey - Episode 319Grant Fritchey has over thirty years of experience in IT, specializing in development and database administration. He works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate and writes articles for SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He is the author of “SQL Server Execution Plans” and “SQL Server Query Performance Tuning.” He also co-authored “Query Store for SQL Server 2019,” “Expert Performance Indexing,” “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2,” “Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration,” and “Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices.” He presents at conferences and user groups worldwide and is available for part-time, short-term consulting contracts.Since 2009, he has been recognized as a Microsoft SQL...2024-10-1437 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoPodcasting about Postgres with Pino de CandiaHave you ever eavesdropped on other people’s conversations? Former co-host Pino de Candia joins Claire Giordano on this episode of Talking Postgres (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share their experience on podcasting about Postgres. Is listening to a podcast the next best thing to being in the hallway track at a conference? Does it bring the community together? How beneficial has it been to have a parallel chat while recording live? What is the “sweet spot” for the number of guests to have per episode? Is structure important for a podcast? Also discussed: this podcast’s rename, a walk d...2024-07-121h 24
Arrested DevOpsThe Database Calls Are Coming From Inside the House With Grant Fritchey
Arrested DevOps - The Database: The Elephant in the Room
Arrested DevOps - Data! Data! Data! With Francesco Tisiot
Arrested DevOps - The New DevOps With Adam Jacob
History of databases talk from Matty and Kat Cosgrove
2023-10-2642 min
The Humans of DevOps Podcast SeriesFrom a DBA Jerk to a Collaborator!Join Eveline Oehrlich and Grant Fritchey, Product Advocate at Redgate Software, to discuss product advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.
Grant has worked for more than 30 years in IT as a developer and a DBA. He has built systems from major enterprises 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. He develops and presents complete structured learning plans to teach Azure, AWS, and other data-related topics to developers and other IS...2023-08-2325 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoMy favorite ways to learn more about PostgreSQL with Grant Fritchey & Ryan BoozEveryone learns differently. Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with Path To Citus Con* co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the learning resources available to developers and users in all the corners of the PostgreSQL world. What drives you to learn: need or curiosity? What can podcasts teach us while we bike to work? Are conference talks good for growing skills, or are they better for networking? What about books? And do older books still have much to offer? It turns out, most people need much more than one...2023-07-141h 18Azure & DevOps PodcastGrant Fritchey: SQL Server Performance Tuning - Episode 236A Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. Grant is an active participant in the SQL Server Central discussion forums. He writes articles for SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He blogs regularly at scarydba.com. Grant is the author of several books including SQL Server Query Performance Tuning and SQL Server Execution Plans. Grant teaches classes on data management and databases around the world. He teaches in the smallest user group settings and at the largest...2023-03-1344 min
The Humans of DevOps Podcast SeriesDevOps and the Long-Term Shift to Hybrid Work Environments with Grant FritcheyOn this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Grant Fritchey(@GFritchey) DevOps Advocate at Redgate. They discuss automation, configuration and planning, and how DevOps can help with the shift to hybrid work environments.
Grant Fritchey has worked for more than 30 years in IT as a developer and a DBA. He has built systems from the major enterprise to distributed systems to small boutique companies. He is the author of multiple books including SQL Server Execution Plans and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning. He develops and presents complete structured learning plans to teach Azure, AWS...2022-06-0631 min
Geeks on Screens with Coffee63 - Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) - Screens with Coffee Season 4Geeks on Screens with Coffee Episode 63 - Scary. DBA.
Look who I bumped into at the water cooler/tea room/corridor?
It's only Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey)
Welcome back to the first episode of season 4. I will be talking to Grant about life, the universe and almost everything. If you are lucky, we might talk a bit about PASS and ham radio.
Bio: Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate...2021-07-171h 10
DBAleDBAle 29: Guess the State of Database DevOps in 2021Our guest host, and the fountain of knowledge that is, Grant Fritchey, gets into the spirit early enjoying a Beer Can with Chris. Going head-to-head in the ultimate DBAle showdown, Grant pits Chris v Chris as they battle it out to correctly guess insights from the brand new 2021 State of Database DevOps Report. So, grab yourself a beer, pick a Chris to bet on and play along at home– cheers.2021-02-2158 min
Data Driven*DataPoint* PASS 2019 Welcome ReceptionIn this Data Point, Andy bumps into some familiar faces on the way to the PASS 2019 Welcome Reception where Grant Fritchey kicks off the festivities.
Link to CozyRoc
Fun fact: Frank used to work with Grant Fritchey back in the 90s at a large investment bank on Wall Street. Small World.
Video version available at: https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/790212794754980/
2019-11-0603 min
Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 011: Grant Fritchey interviewGrant Fritchey is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 20 years of experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. He has worked with SQL Server since 6.0, back in 1995. He has developed in Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Java. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk), SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress) and co-Author “Expert Performance Indexing”, “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2”, “Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration” and “Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices”.Since 2009 he has been awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. In 2014 I was awarded as a Dunn & Bradstreet MVP. In 2011 I re...2018-06-2741 min
SQL Data Partners PodcastEpisode 11: SQL Server StatisticsSo it turns out an old dog can learn new tricks--or at least that is what happened to me when I chatted with Grant Fritchey from Red Gate software about SQL Server Statistics. Always taking an opportunity to teach, Grant talks about why statistics are important and we go over some fundamental items you may just want to know about. As always compañeros, have fun on the SQL trail. Be sure to check out the show notes at http://sqldatapartners.com/2015/09/29/statistics for information we chat about during the program.2015-09-3034 minSQL Data Partners PodcastEpisode 11: SQL Server StatisticsSo it turns out an old dog can learn new tricks--or at least that is what happened to me when I chatted with Grant Fritchey from Red Gate software about SQL Server Statistics. Always taking an opportunity to teach, Grant talks about why statistics are important and we go over some fundamental items you may just want to know about. As always compañeros, have fun on the SQL trail. Be sure to check out the show notes at http://sqldatapartners.com/2015/09/29/statistics for information we chat about during the program.2015-09-3034 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Database: The Elephant in the RoomData - we can’t have applications or services without it. If software is eating the world, then data is the maitre’d. However, it can be challenging to incorporate database design and release into the world of continuous delivery and devops. Grant Fritchey and Jonathan Hickford of Redgate join Matt and Trevor for a discussion of DevOps and Databases.2014-12-0900 min
no dogma podcast#09 Grant Fritchey, Database Dev OpsSummary
Grant Fritchey and I discuss database dev op and how it can anything to anyone.
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what he does; origin of scary DBA nickname; what is dev ops, day to day dev ops tasks; DBA and developer interactions, communications, DBA’s favorite word is “no”; dev ops and source control, putting a DB in source control, integration with dev, auditing; moving DB from production to source control, ssdt, red gate sql source control, DBA resistance to source control, changing methodologies and mindsets, teething pains; tooling; keeping DB source in same place as softwa...2014-09-151h 04.jpg)
People Talking TechEpisode 025 – Grant Fritchey
This week in episode, number 025 I’m joined by Grant Fritchey. Grant is a product evangelist for Red Gate software which means he’s probably got the coolest job around. His job is to talk to people about Red Gate’s products.
During the show this week we talk about some of the ups and downs of working from home and some of the tricks that we’ve learned over the years of working from home to keep yourself sane and keep being productive while working somewhere which is both distracting and isolating all that the same ti...2013-03-0530 min
SQL Down UnderSDU Show 54 with guest Grant FritcheyThis show features SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey discussing how to trace and optimize queries, along with tips on reading execution plans.2013-02-021h 05
Midnight DBAGrant Fritchey is our HeroWhat can we say about Grant that isn't already in the police report? He's just an interesting guy. Come see us discuss query tuning and Kenpo with Grant.2010-11-1755 min