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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Website: https://scarydba.com
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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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Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.

I...

2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)

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SQL Clone and a Little Competition

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...

2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)

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Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...

2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)

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SQL Clone

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...

2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)

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Blogs

Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler

One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...

Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps

Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...

Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator

By Anthony Nocentino

Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...

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