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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Query Store, Plan Forcing and Table Variables

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This weekend I was in Stockholm in Sweden, talking Query Store and plan forcing with Steinar Anderson, when he mentioned the problems he had while forcing plans that had...

2019-05-06

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Data Breaches: All Your Fault

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One part of my job is to understand the compliance landscape. This means that I read a lot about the GDPR and related similar laws. I also have to...

2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)

508 reads

Database Fundamentals #21: Using the JOIN Operator, OUTER JOIN

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The OUTER JOIN returns one complete set of data and then the matching values from the other set. The syntax is basically the same as INNER JOIN but you...

2019-04-25 (first published: 2019-04-15)

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GDPR in the USA

by Grant Fritchey

SimpleTalk

GDPR enforcement began in May of 2018, but if you are doing business in the US, you may not think it applies to you. Grant Fritchey explains why you might be wrong about that and why you need to act now.

2019-04-16

Learning Jupyter Notebooks

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m starting the process of learning how to use Jupyter Notebooks. Notebooks are documents that contain live code, commentary, results, pictures and more. Jupyter Notebooks are used for presentations,...

2019-04-08

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Jobs That Beat The Caring Out Of You

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was inspired by Jen McCown’s story here. Read that first. It’s WAY better than mine. This is not an April Fools post. Fools are involved, but none were...

2019-04-01

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Containers Are The Present, Not the Future

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]