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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Upcoming Events Where We Can Chat

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I get around quite a bit.
Next week I’ll be visiting three cities in Germany talking to user groups in Frankfurt,...

2015-03-09

658 reads

DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...

2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)

6,816 reads

No Such Thing as a DevOps DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Sjor Takes (b|t) has just barely started blogging, but he’s got a great post about a discussion he had with...

2015-03-02

774 reads

How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...

2015-02-26

1,453 reads

My First Board Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Parents, you know that feeling you get after you’ve brought home that brand new baby (or in my case, babies) where...

2015-01-30 (first published: 2015-01-26)

6,352 reads

Oh Look, A Horseless Carriage

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Never forget, we’re making buggy whips. And everybody we know drives little buggies and they need our buggy whips. We’ve...

2015-01-28

1,081 reads

Grant Fritchey Reviews Minion Reindex

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Indexing

Grant Fritchey reviews Midnight DBA's Minion Reindex, a highly customizable set of scripts that take on the task of rebuilding and reorganizing your indexes.