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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Query Hash Formula Changes Between Versions

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The question came up on SQL Server Central that someone wanted to track queries on their 2008R2 instance and on...

2015-04-21

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Azure SQL Database v12 and SQL Magazine

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old...

2015-04-16

685 reads

Constraints and SELECT Statements

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve posted previously about how a foreign key constraint can change how a SELECT query behaves. Logically that just makes...

2015-04-16 (first published: 2015-04-06)

7,525 reads

I Am Grateful For

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...

2015-04-10

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Error: Unknown Property ismemoryoptimized

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re starting the process of moving your databases in Azure SQL Databast to v12, you need to do one...

2015-04-07

2,073 reads

Does the New Cardinality Estimator Reduce Bad Parameter Sniffing

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

No. Next question.
Although, that answer can be slightly, ever so slightly, nuanced…
Parameter sniffing is a good thing. But, like a...

2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-30)

7,287 reads

Speaker of the Month: April 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my favorite events of the year is the SQL Saturday in Silicon Valley. They’ve had four of them...

2015-04-03

607 reads

Simple Parameterization and Data Types

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Simple paramaterization occurs when the optimizer determines that a query would benefit from a reusable plan, so it takes the...

2015-04-02 (first published: 2015-03-24)

6,981 reads

PASS Board Update: March 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Hello all,
It’s been a while since my last update. Sorry. I’ve just been traveling and presenting and working on books...

2015-03-31

1,104 reads

Toshiba Portege Z301-A Review

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Last year I purchased a Lenovo W530. Nightmares then ensued. Nice laptop if you just want to use it as...

2015-03-25

618 reads

Blogs

Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready

Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...

Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama

Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...

Don’t Fear the Technology

By Brian Kelley

The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...

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Reserved Words I

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Get Along

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Reserved Words I

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