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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Operations Manager Feedback

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re involved with maintaining Microsoft Operations Manager, you probably have a few things you’d like to tell the developers,...

2009-10-13

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Table Variables Are Only in Memory: Fact or Myth

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I keep seeing these concepts that have long been disproven, posted again and again on newsgroups as if they were valid information. The...

2009-10-13

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3 Weeks to the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS Summit is only three weeks away and I’m getting awfully excited. It’s not too late to register. Heck,...

2009-10-10

644 reads

Another Book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Well, part of one anyway. I wrote three chapters of Rob Walter’s new book, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Administration. I...

2009-10-10

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PASS Log Reader Awards

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Brent Ozar, Andy Warren and Jeremiah Peschka have put together a blogger award called the PASS Log Reader Award. I...

2009-10-08

729 reads

SNESSUG September Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We had a good night with 13 people attending. I ran unopposed for president of SNESSUG for my second, and...

2009-10-08

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Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact

by Grant Fritchey

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Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...

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2009-10-07

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Hey, ho, where’d you go…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Ohio?
I’m presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly minted MVP, Jeremiah Peschka (congrats again)....

2009-10-06

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Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...

2009-10-05

3,209 reads

Free Stuff and a SQL Server Standard Update

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Great news. We’ve managed to get one article all the way through the process. We’ll have our first publication out...

2009-10-02

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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama

Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...

Don’t Fear the Technology

By Brian Kelley

The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...

Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG

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The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...

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RegEx Functions III

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RegEx Functions III

If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.

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