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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Speaker of the Month, May 2014

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...

2014-05-02

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Microsoft Azure Automation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Microsoft just announced a new mechanism for managing your Azure resources, Automation. You can check out the documentation on it...

2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)

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Azure Automation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...

2014-04-23

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I Am Better Than You

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That is a patently false statement and total BS. It sure does crawl up your spine though doesn’t it? Why...

2014-04-22

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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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Blogs

Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions

With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...

A New Word: Fawtle

fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...

Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets

By anup.varier@gmail.com

AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...

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Forums

High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?

By Paul Lancaster

Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...

Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025

By Deepam Ghosh

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...

Encoding URLs

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Encoding URLs

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Question of the Day

Encoding URLs

I have this data in a table:

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO

If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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