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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etaoin shrdlu

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

Technology

Grant looks back at etaoin shrdlu. Read more to find out what that means.

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2024-09-21

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Missing Columns in Extended Events Live Data Explorer

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Let me be extremely clear up front, this is not my original work. I saw this post on DBA.StackExchange.com and I wanted to share and promote it. Nice work...

2024-09-18 (first published: 2024-09-02)

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AWS RDS PostgreSQL Restore to a Point in Time

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the single biggest reasons to go with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering like AWS RDS are the things it does for you, like making it...

2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-08-26)

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What Are the Most Common Blockers to Adopting SQL Server Extended Events?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Yeah, stupid long title. It’s a question I put to several different AI engines. I’m curious what the aggregated knowledge of the internet has to say on the topic...

2024-09-09 (first published: 2024-08-19)

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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2024

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Hello all! This post is nothing but a simple request. Please, if you have a few spare minutes, meander on over to this link and fill out the State...

2024-09-04 (first published: 2024-08-13)

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Observing Extended Events

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

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: 2024-08-12)

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Outside Interests

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

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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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PostgreSQL and Instrumentation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m still learning PostgreSQL and one of the things I’ve been looking at a lot lately is instrumentation. What do I mean? Well, if you’re in SQL Server, think,...

2024-08-23 (first published: 2024-08-05)

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