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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24 Hours of PASS, Fall 2012

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s time to get your learn on again. The schedule for the Fall 24 Hours of PASS is up and...

2012-08-22

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Coming to Your Town

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I can’t sing and I can’t play and I left the young generation behind a while ago, but I’m still...

2012-08-16

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Being Right, the Other Side

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I read an excellent article by Camille Fournier about the importance of recognizing that being right is not the only...

2012-08-15

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Execution Plans … In the Cloud!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re moving to a fully-fledged SQL database as part of Azure you may never even touch SQL Server Management...

2012-08-10 (first published: 2012-08-01)

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SQL In The City: London 2012, Recap

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Wow!
How’s that for a recap?
The concept for the SQL in the City events is pretty simple. Put on a free...

2012-07-17 (first published: 2012-07-16)

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Does Encryption Affect Seeing Statements in Deadlock Graphs?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Good question. I don’t have a clue. So let’s set up a test. I’ll create this stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE DL2e
...

2012-07-03 (first published: 2012-06-25)

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Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...

2012-07-02

1,501 reads

The New Phone Book Is Here!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I can’t help it. I get really terribly excited when I publish a book. Maybe it should be old hat....

2012-06-27

1,600 reads

Problems with my new book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

First off, I apologize. As if writing a book wasn’t hard enough, now we get new problems because of on-demand...

2012-06-26

834 reads

PASS Summit 2012

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I sure hope you’re planning on attending the PASS Summit this year. If you’re not, you might want to reconsider....

2012-06-19

787 reads

Blogs

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

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I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...

EightKB 2026

By Andrew Pruski

EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences I

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?

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