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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PASS Summit 2015: So Far

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s Kilt Day!
I want to give a quick assessment on how the Summit has been for me so far. Monday,...

2015-10-29

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Talk to Me at PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re going to PASS and you want to have a chat, I want to talk to you. If it’s...

2015-10-23

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ZOOMIT!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Guilty.
I’m at least one of the people who yelled Zoomit during a keynote at PASS Summit.
I want to take a moment...

2015-10-22

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Statistics for the New Data Pro

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Next week at the PASS Summit I’ll be presenting a session called Statistics for the New Data Pro.
You can read...

2015-10-20

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Getting Started With DocumentDB

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve put this off for too long. It’s time to get my feet wet with some new tech.
Step 1 is...

2015-10-14

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Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...

2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)

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Argenis Without Borders: Fun For a Good Cause

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This is the second year of Argenis Without Borders and the second year that I’m taking part. Last year we...

2015-10-12

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Speaker of the Month: October 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Working on my third year of “Speaker of the Month” posts now. The good news, I haven’t run out of...

2015-10-02

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Yes, Foreign Keys Help Performance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I created this example several years ago that illustrates how foreign key constraints can help performance. It’s a contrived example....

2015-09-21 (first published: 2015-09-09)

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PASS Nominations Committee 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The Nominations Committee has done their job and the final report has been published.
Good luck to everyone running. Thank you...

2015-09-14

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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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Question of the Day

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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