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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Observing Extended Events

Sure, you can right click on a running session for Extended Events and open the Live Data window, but are there other ways of observing what Extended Events is...

2024-08-28 (first published: )

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I'm a little excited because tomorrow I'm going to my first maker's faire. I'll be volunteering with our local radio club (100 year old, W5IAS, oldest radio club in Oklahoma). In addition, I'll be showing off a few controller chips & Raspberry Pis that I use with my radios for APRS, satellite tracking, and digital […]

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2024-08-24

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Kilt Day!

This is a quick blog post to announce that I am reviving Kilt Day at PASS Data Community Summit. Over the last few years… ah hell, let’s just say...

2024-08-16 (first published: )

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Running SQLCMD II

I run this command to start SQLCMD: 

sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"
At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts): 
1> select @@version
2> go
What happens?

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