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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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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I Don’t Understand

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...

2017-03-03 (first published: 2017-02-24)

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Random Blog Post Challenge

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...

2017-03-02

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Confusion of An Old Technologist

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...

2017-02-23

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Estimated Costs of All Queries

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...

2017-02-22 (first published: 2017-02-20)

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Approaching Politics in IT

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

The news cycle seems to be dominated by discussion of politics. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, the talk of politics is inescapable and is probably going to lead to you being displeased with your fellow man. Luckily, we work in IT, so we can avoid politics. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Politics goes way beyond […]