About

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.


Grant Fritchey has presented the following presentations

    Grant Fritchey You Need a PostgreSQL Restore Plan, Not a Backup Plan at Postgres Conference 2025
    You are only as good as your last restore

    presented by Grant Fritchey

    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...

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