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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How Do You Know You’re Good At Your Job?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You’ve been working as a DBA for X number of years. How do you know you’re good at it? Heck,...

2015-07-13

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But I Don’t Have a Test Server…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I frequently see statements on forums along the lines of “I don’t have a test server, so I’m going to...

2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-06)

3,149 reads

Speaker of the Month: June 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

With my travel schedule, I don’t always get out to events where I can see a community speaker. Sometimes, I...

2015-07-03

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Leadership Training Possibility

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I know a few people in the SQL Server community who have been involved in Scouting. A couple of them...

2015-06-30

994 reads

Speaker of the Month: May 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

When I attend sessions at events, I try to mix it up. I’ll go to a session that, really, I...

2015-06-09

528 reads

Come to Us or We’ll Come to You

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

No, that’s not a threat. It’s an offer to help out.
Redgate Software is very serious about the efforts we’re putting...

2015-06-01 (first published: 2015-05-18)

1,423 reads

Parallelism and Columnstore Indexes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Columnstore indexes are fascinating and really cool. Unfortunately, they’re adding an interesting new wrinkle to an old problem.
What’s the Cost...

2015-06-01

818 reads

Book Review: Connected

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I heard about Connected from a show on NPR (Yes, I listen to NPR, why do people keep saying that?)....

2015-05-29 (first published: 2015-05-19)

5,090 reads

PASS Board Update: May 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve had a busy month on the Board.
You may have seen some tweets going by about our compliance with international...

2015-05-27

543 reads

Database Engine Tuning Advisor

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I would love to see the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) pulled from the product. Completely. Heck, I feel bad that...

2015-05-26

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Blogs

Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python

By Eduardo Pivaral

Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...

Advice I Like: Responsibility

“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...

Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports

Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...

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Forums

Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL

By abdalah.mehdoini

Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...

SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process

By James Greaves

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Agent Job Automated Change...

Another Model, More Data Loss

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Another Model, More Data Loss

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Question of the Day

Finding a Database Master Key

Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?

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