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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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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SQL In The City: Seattle

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you missed all the great speakers on the five city tour of SQL in the City, don’t despair. Many...

2012-10-17

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Why Tune Queries?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s just a query against the database. If things are running slow, buy some more memory, a faster CPU or...

2012-10-17 (first published: 2012-10-15)

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RML Utilities and SQL Server 2012

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working through some code that I haven’t touched recently and I’m running it for the first time on a...

2012-10-16

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Interviewing a DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m not a fan of trivia style interview questions. Yes, I ask a few because you have to in order...

2012-09-26 (first published: 2012-09-24)

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PASS Elections 2012

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Yeah, it’s that time again. And we have a magnificent slate of people running. I mean truly amazing and wonderful...

2012-09-21

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Conference in Florida: SQL Server Live

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This conference is new to me. In case it’s new to you, I thought I’d take a moment to point...

2012-09-14

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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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