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 Hash Values, Plan Guides and the Query Store

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was eating dinner with Hugo Kornelis and we started talking about query hash values. You know, like everyone does...

2017-05-08 (first published: 2017-04-24)

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Redgate Alexa Contest Winners!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

A couple of weeks ago we had a small contest here to pick a skill for Alexa. The entries were...

2017-05-05

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Food On Your Table

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was asked, “Who here thinks that PASS helps people put food on the table?” To my shame, I initially...

2017-04-25

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It's all about Customer Service

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.

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2017-04-24

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Discuss

The Age of Data and Software Development

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool...

2017-04-17

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Alerts From Azure Automation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In a previous post, I showed how to set up statistics maintenance for your Azure databases using Azure Automation. However,...

2017-04-04

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Learning Azure From The Web

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...

2017-04-03

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Random Blogging Challenge Results

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...

2017-03-29

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Sharing With You In All Fifty States

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...

2017-03-28

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Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...

2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)

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Blogs

The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5

By Monica Rathbun

Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...

A Prompt AI Experiment

Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...

SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)

How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...

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how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb

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i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...

SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained

By Chandan Shukla

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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?

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