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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Statistics Update Clarification

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

By default statistics are created automatically within SQL Server. And, by default, these stats are updated automatically based on a...

2013-01-11 (first published: 2013-01-07)

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Plans for 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I have lists. Lots of lists. I even have them in different locations sometimes. Some of them are carefully written...

2013-01-09

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SQLBits Public Sessions

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re over in the UK, or close to it, you’ve probably heard of SQL Bits even if you haven’t...

2013-01-07 (first published: 2013-01-03)

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The Surface Meta-App

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Just a quick little blog post about one more app you’re going to want to track down for your Surface....

2012-12-12

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Microsoft Surface: Top Apps… So Far

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

After living with the Surface for a month and trying hard to make it work as a tool for production,...

2012-12-06

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Experimenting with Social Media

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

After multiple talks with Jason Strate (blog|twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog|twitter) about how they are working on automating more of...

2012-12-05

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HDInsight, Finally

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

See this:

That’s right. The install worked. All I had to do was get a completely clean server set up. No...

2012-12-03

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Sharing the Love

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Just a few blog posts that you ought to go and read.
First up, Tom LaRock maintains a listing of SQL...

2012-11-30

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HDInsight: Trying again

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

And I thought this would be so easy.
Latest attempt. I just did an uninstall of HDInsight. Then I found all...

2012-11-29

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HDInsight: First Pass

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...

2012-11-28

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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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