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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DevOps and Automation Will Eliminate the DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been reading about the death of the DBA ever since I first made the jump from full time developer...

2019-01-23 (first published: 2019-01-14)

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Critiquing Grant Fritchey: Circa 2008

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

For several years, I ran a regular feature on this blog, Speaker of the Month. I attend a lot of...

2019-01-22

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Get Your Learn On

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There is one truth that I can say about technology with an absolute certainty: It’s going to change. Get your...

2019-01-21

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PowerShell to Simulate Load

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Gathering metrics is quite difficult if there are no queries. So, if you’re working in non-production environments, but you still...

2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-07)

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Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...

2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)

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Redgate Reviews 2018, Predicts 2019

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Our boss came to us and said, “We need one more webinar to round out the year.” Well, we’re just...

2018-12-17

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Forcing a Plan That Has a Plan Guide

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The question that came up during a recent class I was teaching was: What if you have a plan guide...

2018-12-11 (first published: 2018-11-26)

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Privacy and Protection in the Age of the GDPR

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We’re seeing more and more GDPR-style laws coming out from various governments. With the GDPR starting to do enforcement at...

2018-12-10

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Query Store and Plan Cache Plans Compared

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Query Store plans and the plans in cache are identical, right? There won’t be differences because the plan that is...

2018-12-03 (first published: 2018-11-19)

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Bad Query Performance Tips Rebutted

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Once upon a time, someone, somewhere, wrote a list of bad query performance tips and they’ve been copied all over...

2018-11-20 (first published: 2018-11-12)

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Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward

This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...

dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts

By Koen Verbeeck

You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...

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Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.

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Hyperscale Replicas IV

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The SQL Server Date Magic: When CAST and CONVERT Keep Your Index Seek

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Hyperscale Replicas IV

In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?

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