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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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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Speaker of the Month: September 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Feast or famine.
The last several months I just haven’t seen that many speakers, let alone that many community speakers. Then,...

2015-09-04

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Targeted Plan Cache Removal

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

A lot of times you’ll hear how people are experiencing sudden, intermittent, poor performance on a query, bad parameter sniffing...

2015-09-02 (first published: 2015-08-24)

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Time to Change

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I recently spent two days consulting with a company on their database development and deployment processes. They are a small, capable, team...

2015-08-19

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Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.

What? Still here? You want more?...

2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)

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PASS Board Update: July 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was actually travelling for most of July and some of that was on holiday with the family, the real...

2015-08-13

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Blogs

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

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I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...

EightKB 2026

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EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...

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Hidden Heroes

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences I

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?

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