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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PASS Summit 2013 Day 2 Key Note

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

KILT DAY!
Today we have to eat our vegetables and then get lots and lots of sweet desert.
Or.
Today we hear about...

2013-10-17

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PASS Summit 2013: Women In Technology Luncheon

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This year I was invited to attend the Women In Technology luncheon as a blogger. So I’ll be live-blogging it...

2013-10-17

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PASS Summit 2013 Day 1 Keynote

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I am liveblogging the keynote from the bloggers table at the PASS Summit again this year. Just keep scrolling.
Watching the...

2013-10-16

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Speaker of the Month, October 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...

2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)

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Azure Account and Spending Limits

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...

2013-10-08

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An Experiment Concludes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...

2013-09-30

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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...

2013-09-27

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PASS Votes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...

2013-09-26

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AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

While I have production databases in Azure, I can’t exactly experiment with them at will. Further, while they mostly have...

2013-09-25

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Premium Database on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the things that can make Windows Azure SQL Databases (WASD) attractive is the fact that they run inside...

2013-09-24

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Blogs

Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?

By Monica Rathbun

While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...

Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder

(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...

The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger

I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...

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Pay for Performance

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...

Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Packing and Decoding Device Status...

SQL Server Audit Failures

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Audit Failures

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Audit Failures

If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?

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