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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Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...

2010-03-18

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SNESSUG March Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...

2010-03-15

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Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...

2010-03-11

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Location of the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...

2010-03-10

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Blog Anniversary

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...

2010-03-09

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MacGyver?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...

2010-03-08

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PowerShell for Batch Operations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...

2010-03-01

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Help with Learning Powershell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...

2010-02-26

1,397 reads

So You Want to Write a Book?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

What the heck is wrong with you?
Still interested? Fine. I’ll tell you my take on this whole business. I’m only...

2010-02-19

701 reads

Buck Woody on Code Writing Code

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I realize I’m prejudiced, being one of those evil DBA’s & all, but I can’t help but agree with him. It’s...

2010-02-16

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan

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My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...

Advice I Like: Celebrate Success

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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times

By Meagan Longoria

Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...

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Increase Deadlock Detection

How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?

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