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.

Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
Website: https://scarydba.com
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In the Clouds

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The July meeting for the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group is tonight. Andrew Novick will be talking about...

2010-07-14

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Red Gate SQL Source Control

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You just have to love Red Gate tools. They find the small area that they want to cover and then...

2010-07-14

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Delivering the Bad News

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s a Friday, the day governments & companies traditionally deliver bad news. I recived the bad news earlier in the week,...

2010-07-09

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Small PowerShell Script

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m still trying to learn PowerShell better. The opportunity to answer simple questions and problems with the tool is hard...

2010-07-06

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One of these things is not like the other

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working with PowerShell, and digging it. I decided that I wanted to create a new script (blog post later,...

2010-06-30

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Powershell Fundamentals

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve had the opportunity this week to take class with Don Jones (blog | twitter), PowerShell guru and author of PowerShell...

2010-06-25

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Learning Powershell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been attending a Powershell fundamentals class with Don Jones (blog|twitter). If you read my blog you might be aware...

2010-06-23

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Sarasota SQL Server Users Group

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tonight I’m presenting for the Sarasota SQL Server Users Group. If you’re interested in attending, you can join in using...

2010-06-15

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Virtualizing Servers in Production

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The company where I work has been using virtualization in development, QA, testing, etc., for many years now. We have...

2010-06-15

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Maps in Reports!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been playing with SQL Server 2008 R2 for quite a while in the CTP’s and what not. But, I hadn’t made...

2010-06-14

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Blogs

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...

T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget

By MarlonRibunal

I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...

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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies

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Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...

Measuring Productivity

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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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