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Guest Columnist: Grant Fritchey
SQLServerCentral.com profile
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Great DBA’s in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
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Grant Fritchey
2009/10/14
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Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
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Grant Fritchey
2009/09/14
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Review of the Maxpedition Aggressor Tactical Attache
Need a new laptop bag? MVP Grant Fritchey brings us a review of a large and versatile brief case that's a little different than the rest.
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Grant Fritchey
2009/07/24
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SQLServerCentral.com
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laptop
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SQL Server Execution Plans
Every day, out in the SQL Server forums, the same questions come up again and again: why is this query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? Grant Fritchey provides the only dedicated and detailed book on this essential topic.
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Grant Fritchey
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Red-Gate
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Deploying Databases From Visual Studio Team System Database Edition
With the GDR release, a whole new set of deployment functionality has become available to VSTS: DB.
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Grant Fritchey
2009/06/24
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SQLServerCentral.com
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How to Take Part in a Beta Test
A description of the things to avoid and do when involved with a beta test.
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Grant Fritchey
2008/09/26
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SQLServerCentral.com
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beta testing
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Operations Manager Custom Collection
An overview of how to collect data from TSQL into Operations Manager Performance Rules.
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Grant Fritchey
2008/06/05
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Operations Manager
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Virtualization for Database Development
The trials and tribulations of our first attempt using Virtual Servers
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Grant Fritchey
2008/04/08
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Multi-Environment Deployments Using Team Edition for Database Professionals
In order to support multiple environments, a number of choices, not readily apparent, need to be made. This article outlines one approach that is working.
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Grant Fritchey
2008/01/24
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The T-SQL Quiz
Longtime SQL Server DBA and author Grant Fritchey decided to quiz his developers on how to perform some simple functions in T-SQL. Read about his results and see how you might do in taking his quiz.
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Grant Fritchey
2007/05/28
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SQLServerCentral.com
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SQL Puzzles
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Putting Unit Tests to Work
Testing is an important part of any software development process, but it's a part that many of us skimp on or ignore because of the tedious nature of testing. Longtime author Grant Fritchey has been working with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals and has written us an article on how you can make your unit testing easier.
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Grant Fritchey
2007/02/01
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Unit Testing With Visual Studio
Testing is an important part of programming and it is no different with SQL Server development. Longtime author Grant Fritchey brings us a look at the new testing features available in Visual Studio 2005.
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Grant Fritchey
2006/11/15
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Unit Testing and Code Generation
One of the fundamental skills a developer needs is the ability to test their code. Most people don't really do a good job, partly because they don't have a good process and leave testing until the end. Grant Fritchey brings us a new method of unit testing T-SQL stored procedures that can help you build automated tests for your code.
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Grant Fritchey
2006/06/20
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Outer Join Mystery
Working with outer joins can be tricky since the syntax doesn't always appear to make sense. Grant Fritchey brings us a great example of how this confusion can cause issues if you use the old style syntax.
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Grant Fritchey
2006/05/15
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SQLServerCentral.com
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SQL Rescue Review
Having a good tool to read your SQL Server transaction log can be a lifesaver, or a job saver. RegGate Software, maker of a number of useful SQL Server utilities has a log reader and Grany Fritchey takes a look at this product and how it might work in your environment.
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Grant Fritchey
2005/11/01
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Recovery to a Point in Time
This is one of the very useful features in SQL Server 2000 and if you ever have the need to perform this actiom, you will appreciate the knowledge in this article.
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Grant Fritchey
2005/06/15
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SQLServerCentral.com
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Migration to Production
SQL Server is an easy to use product in many ways, much better than the other major RDBMSs out there. However it's source control and ease of moving changes from development to production needs some work. Having a solid process is as important as good tools and new author Grant Fritchey brings us his proven method for moving changes through QA into production.
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Grant Fritchey
2005/03/22
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SQLServerCentral.com
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