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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Database Fundamentals #33: Check Constraints from the GUI

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The other types of constraints are referred to as check constraints. They limit the data by defining a logical operation that checks the state of the data prior to...

2022-09-05

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AWS RDS Restore To A Point In Time

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The single most important part of backups are not backups. The single most important part of backups are restores. It doesn’t matter a lick if you have 100, flawless...

2022-08-29

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AWS RDS Backups

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service when it comes to data is the fact that you get RDS backups, built in. Go...

2022-08-22

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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: Object Changes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I hear this one all the time: How do I find out who implemented object changes? I also get: Can I see the query that caused object changes? Let’s...

2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)

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Thank You Tim!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Ah, Tim Ford. I remember the time we were sitting at Ruth Kriss Steakhouse trying to figure out which of the two of us was the dumbest person in...

2022-08-12 (first published: 2022-07-26)

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Three Mile Island And Your Databases

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.

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2022-08-06

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Thank You Andy!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I remember going into Andy Leonard’s session at PASS Summit in Denver. I’m not going to lie, it was kind of sparsely attended, so I got to sit up...

2022-08-02

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Database Fundamentals #32: Create Unique Constraints with T-SQL

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In the last Database Fundamentals post, I explained what a unique constraint was and how you can create them using the GUI. Using TSQL to create a constraint is...

2022-07-25

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