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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SQL Server First Aid

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you take basic first aid, say a CPR course, you’ll learn a handy mnemonic for the primary assessment you...

2014-04-15

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Sharing a Good Idea

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I posted earlier about my experiments with Microsoft Curah!. (yes, technically the period should follow the exclamation since the exclamation...

2014-04-14

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Speaker of the Month, April 2014

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m really enjoying picking a speaker of the month. It forces me to sit through a lot more sessions at...

2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-04)

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I’m a Traveling Man

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We are coming into quite a busy time for my speaking schedule. I’m hitting the road. It does one thing...

2014-04-10

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Curation and Performance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m trying out a new web site from Microsoft called Curah! that is all about curation. Curation is basically what...

2014-04-08

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Thanks For Stopping By

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Yesterday I passed 300,000 views on the blog. Recently I went over 1,000 comments. My little joke on Tuesday garnered...

2014-04-03

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SQL Server 2014 New Defaults

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Today, April 1st, 2014, marks the release of SQL Server 2014. There are tons and tons of great new methods...

2014-04-01

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SQL Server 2014 New Defaults

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

SQL Server 2014

SQL Server 2014 is being released and a change in the defaults will ensure that more instances will run smoother.

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2014-04-01

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Save Money On Your Training Server

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You can spend less money. Some of us are lucky. We work for very large corporations who can easily set...

2014-03-31 (first published: 2014-03-25)

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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Talk

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I almost forgot to tell you about the Database Administration Virtual Chapter meeting next week, March 26th, 2014. I’ll be...

2014-03-21

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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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i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...

SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained

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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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