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 2012 Day 2: Keynote

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome to Day 2 of the PASS Summit!
It’s been a very exciting event so far. Today I’m presenting two sessions,...

2012-11-08

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PASS Summit 2012 Day 2: KILT DAY!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome to the fourth Kilt Day at the SQL PASS Summit. It might be a little silly, but it’s fun....

2012-11-08

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PASS Summit 2012 Day 1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We’re off and running here at the PASS Summit.
New this year is live streaming all day.
Bill Graziano is introducing the...

2012-11-07

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PASS Summit 2012: Day -3

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The Summit proper starts on Wednesday, but the Summit starts at registration. I left a little early from work setting...

2012-11-05

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More Surface

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m continuing to work with the Surface.

BOOM
I just had my first crash. I was in IE when I tried to...

2012-11-02

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Surface, Surface, Prepare to Surface

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

More stuff about the Surface.
Web browsing works extremely well so far. I enjoy how you can swipe to move back...

2012-11-01

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Microsoft Surface

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m going to do with this what I should have done with the Piece Of Fruit (POF), blog about the...

2012-10-31 (first published: 2012-10-28)

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Microsoft Surface Update

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Let’s talk some more about the basic keyboard. I’m really surprised at how well it works. But, it’s absolutely going...

2012-10-31

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Scary Reading List for Halloween

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I know I focus on community, SQL Server, professional development and process. But you need to do other stuff occasionally...

2012-10-26

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Clustered Indexes Have Statistics Too

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It may seem obvious, but I’ve heard more than one person suggest to me that statistics on a clustered index...

2012-10-22

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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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