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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Speaking at Live360 Orlando

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Are you going to be in Florida in November? Me too. I’m privileged to say that I get to speak...

2017-08-28

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Bad Parameter Sniffing Decision Flow Chart

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Lots of people are confused by how to deal with bad parameter sniffing when it occurs. In an effort to...

2017-08-24 (first published: 2017-08-15)

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Redgate Hub LiveStream

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Over at Redgate, we’ve been working on a new way to get information to you. It’s called the Redgate Hub....

2017-08-23

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Runtime Metrics In Execution Plans

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Capturing query execution metrics is much easier now that you can see the runtime metrics in execution plans when you’re...

2017-08-22

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Responsibility to Learn

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

“I would educate myself, and that I would never stop educating myself. It was my responsibility to keep learning.” Who said that? Albert Einstein? Da Vinci? Stephen Hawking? None of the above. That statement came from the Demon of the rock band KISS, Gene Simmons. If a rock & roll legend knows that it’s on […]