Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey is a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years’ experience in IT including time spent in support and development. Grant has worked with SQL Server since version 6.0 back in 1995. He has developed in VB, VB.Net, C# and Java. Grant has authored books for Apress and Simple-Talk, and joined Red Gate as a Product Advocate in January 2011. Find Grant on Twitter @GFritchey or on his blog as the Scary DBA.

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SSMS 21

Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio...

2025-05-12

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SQLServerCentral Editorial

Just Answer the Question!

I've taken part in online forums since... hoo boy, I was using a dial up modem and had to constantly remind my wife not to pick up the phone while I was using the computer.  Man I'm old. Anyway... I've asked a lot of questions over the years, and I've tried to answer them as […]

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2025-05-03

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Using AI for Data Conversion

I’m sure I’ve never mentioned that I’m an amateur radio operator. Like Vegans and Cross Fitters, we tend to be shy and withdrawn about our predilections. BWA-HA-HA! Ok, like...

2025-04-28 (first published: )

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SQLServerCentral Editorial

Life Moves Pretty Fast

Driving my soon-to-be granddaughter to school today (my son is getting married and will adopt the young lady), we saw a dead armadillo, a turtle in the road (rescued it) and an escaped cow (left it alone). THEN... old soon-to-be granddad had forgotten lunch, so had to deliver that back at the school (cow must […]

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2025-04-26

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Blogs

A Conversation That Refused to End: What We Learned from Our First Event in Zurich

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Stop Wasting Time Rebuilding Indexes Every Night

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Question on SQL Query with NOT condition

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I have a record, in those the three columns where firstname / last name...

Execution Plan Operators

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Merge spans with Dates Logic

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--for a given member if the startdate and endate is continous we need to...

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Question of the Day

Execution Plan Operators

When looking at an execution plan in SSMS, what types of operators are shown?

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