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.

SQLServerCentral Editorial

Limits, Not Goals

I just saw one of "those" questions. You know the ones: 'We're hitting an error with a stored procedure. What is the maximum number of parameters you can have?" <sigh> Look, I get it. Breaking the land speed record is cool. Getting the most people into a phone booth (look it up), also cool. Fastest, […]

(3)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2025-02-15

135 reads

SQLServerCentral Editorial

The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Yeah, I know, holidays are over. It snowed about four inches overnight here and it's still coming down a little. You'll forgive me for having that song running through my head. Yesterday morning, before the storm started, we did a check through the house to make sure we were ready for a couple of days […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2025-01-11

73 reads

SQLServerCentral Editorial

It's The People

Last week the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit conference was held in Seattle. 1,700 of my closest friends got together for a week of learning (well, technically it's a three day conference, but there are two days of pre-conference seminars) and sharing. I'm still exhausted a week later (although, old age and an aggressive travel […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2024-11-16

120 reads

Blog Post

RDS Connectivity

I travel quite a lot for work. Most of it is in the US and Europe, but I get around to other places as well. Most of the time,...

2024-10-21 (first published: )

271 reads

SQLServerCentral Editorial

Are We Dinosaurs?

Let's talk about the elephant in the room right up front. Yes, I'm old. I remember when Buck Woody was a little tyke on the day the last of the Tyranosaurs died (I'm older than Buck). So, I'm not asking if I'm old. Yes. I'm old. No, I'm asking if that massive meteor strike over […]

(3)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2024-10-19

284 reads

Blogs

AI Experiments: Claude Solved a DAB Issue

By

I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...

Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)

By

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

Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container

By

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

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Alamat Kontak Bank BCA KCU MALANG Telp:08218154392

By layanan 24jam BCA

WA CS:08218154392 Jl. Jenderal Basuki Rahmat No.70-74, Klojen, Kec. Klojen, Kota Malang, Jawa Timur...

ALAMAT KANTOR BCA KCU PONTIANAK Telp:083831618008

By Halo BCA

WhatsApp:0838-3161-8008 Jl. Jenderal Ahmad Yani No.1, Benua Melayu Darat, Kec. Pontianak Sel., Kota Pontianak,...

Can You Really Downgrade from Enterprise to Standard and Save Thousands? Here's What Happened

By Pablo Echeverria

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Can You Really Downgrade from...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Limiting Checkpoints

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

See possible answers