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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Azure and Your MSDN Account

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve heard over and over again that the reason people don’t want to learn Azure, to explore it, to understand...

2013-08-15

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24 Hours of PASS Streaming Available

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you missed the 24 Hours of PASS Summit 2013 Preview, you missed some excellent sessions. I watched a few,...

2013-08-13 (first published: 2013-08-07)

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You should NOT attend the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you asked me, prior to today, if I would type or say those words, I would have laughed right...

2013-08-12

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Be Cautious When Critizing About Guidance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I recently posted some comments about some guidance offered by Microsoft when talking about the CXPACKET wait type. Nothing I...

2013-08-07

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Be Cautious Offering Guidance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Guidance is hard.
Seriously, you’d think it would be easy. You’d think you say things like, don’t shrink your database, most...

2013-08-05

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Speaker of the Month, August 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m trying out a new blog post series, mostly for myself as an exercise. I’m going to pick one speaker...

2013-08-02

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Azure for Prototyping and Development

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Psssttt!
Developers. Man, have I got something good for you.
Are your DBAs slowing down your development processes? Are they keeping you...

2013-07-29

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24 Hours of Education

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You absolutely need to learn more. I need to learn more (lots more). We all should be constantly learning more...

2013-07-24

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A Tale of Two Hotels

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This is a long and convoluted post about my experiences at two hotels, but it has a point for DBAs...

2013-07-15

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Getting Started With SQL Server 2014 the Easy Way

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You know you want to at least take a look at the new Client Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server...

2013-07-05 (first published: 2013-07-01)

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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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RegEx Functions III

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Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025: Fewer Locks, Less Blocking, and the Cases It Cannot Fix

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Finely Tuned Models

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Question of the Day

RegEx Functions III

If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.

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