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 2009 Day – 0

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Monday at the PASS Summit. It’s always a big day. This year it’s the eve of the Summit and the...

2009-11-03

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PASS Summit Tuesday Keynote – Part 1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Set up and and ready to go. Wayne Snyder is going to open the ceremonies and the key note will...

2009-11-03

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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 2

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Bob Muglia opened with January 13, 1988, when the Microsoft Sybase Ashton-Tate SQL Server program was launched. Apparently Bill Gates...

2009-11-03

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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 3

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Now up is Ted Kummert of Microsoft.
He’s giving us a good overview of some of the technology coming up. He’s...

2009-11-03

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PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....

2009-11-02

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More PASS Activities

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As if I needed more.
I’ll be sitting at the blogger table and blogging live (as live as I get) during...

2009-10-30

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I Started a Fight

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I had no idea, but evidently I started a bit of a donny-brook. Cool!

2009-10-28

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Snags With Profiler GUI

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Running the Profiler GUI against a production server is not something you should do. I’ve outlined my research into exactly...

2009-10-28

878 reads

SQL Server Standard, Volume 6, Issue #1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s alive! It’s alive!
That’s enough from Colin Clive.
It’ll be out for the Summit. SQL Server Standard lives again! Although, not quite in...

2009-10-27

709 reads

PASS Summit One Week Away

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s just a week and a couple of days before I’ll be hopping a plane for Seattle and the 2009...

2009-10-23

584 reads

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Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)

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This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...

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In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...

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Limiting Checkpoints

If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?

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