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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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

2,606 reads

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

1,205 reads

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

1,629 reads

FreeCon

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got my FreeCon. What’s more, I did it in public and didn’t get in trouble.
FreeCon is the brain child...

2010-11-24

1,616 reads

Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Most people are very aware of the fact that having a foreign key constraint in place on your tables adds...

2010-11-22

1,701 reads

Blogs

5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio

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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...

The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks

We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...

Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule

Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...

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Question of the Day

Running SQLCMD II

I run this command to start SQLCMD:

sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"

At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):

1> select @@version
2> go

What happens?

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