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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PASS Summit 2010 Survey Results

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As I have done in previous years, I’m going to post the results from my sessions at the PASS Summit....

2010-12-23

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The iPad/SQL Monitor Results

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I ended up with 131 posts (1 late hit, sorry), not counting any duplicates with Brent or Steve. It was...

2010-12-20

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The iPad, So Far

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In the front yard, using the iPad & SQL Monitor
After a great deal of unseemly begging, I managed to acquire an...

2010-12-15

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Life/Work Balance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Technology, especially information technology, is the greatest thing to ever happen to mankind, freeing us from toil and drudgery. Technology,...

2010-12-13

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12 Days of SQL, On the 2nd Day of SQL…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Microsoft gave to me, an excellent new management language. Yeah, so it doesn’t rhyme or match the song in any...

2010-12-10

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SQL Saturday New England, #71

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve finally got everything together to get the web site going for SQL Saturday #71. The call for speakers is...

2010-12-09

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So you want to write a book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I had posted a while back on the process of book writing. It was an attempt to educate while scaring...

2010-12-08

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Review: Idera SQL Doctor

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Recently, a co-worker practically slammed me up against the wall, exclaiming “You have to check out this new tool, right...

2010-12-06

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SQL Spackle

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I previously mentioned how SQL Server Central was listing ideas for articles, primarily for short, quick, pointed articles that they...

2010-12-02

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Regressions

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Hannah Dustin, Upset about Regression
One of the most important take-aways from David Dewitt’s presentation at the PASS Summit was the...

2010-11-30

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Blogs

Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together

Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...

Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables

By Eduardo Pivaral

Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...

Updating the Data API Builder

I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...

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Question of the Day

Tracking All the Queries

I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?

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