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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Website: https://scarydba.com
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In the Clouds

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The July meeting for the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group is tonight. Andrew Novick will be talking about...

2010-07-14

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Red Gate SQL Source Control

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You just have to love Red Gate tools. They find the small area that they want to cover and then...

2010-07-14

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Delivering the Bad News

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s a Friday, the day governments & companies traditionally deliver bad news. I recived the bad news earlier in the week,...

2010-07-09

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Small PowerShell Script

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m still trying to learn PowerShell better. The opportunity to answer simple questions and problems with the tool is hard...

2010-07-06

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One of these things is not like the other

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working with PowerShell, and digging it. I decided that I wanted to create a new script (blog post later,...

2010-06-30

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Powershell Fundamentals

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve had the opportunity this week to take class with Don Jones (blog | twitter), PowerShell guru and author of PowerShell...

2010-06-25

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Learning Powershell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been attending a Powershell fundamentals class with Don Jones (blog|twitter). If you read my blog you might be aware...

2010-06-23

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Sarasota SQL Server Users Group

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tonight I’m presenting for the Sarasota SQL Server Users Group. If you’re interested in attending, you can join in using...

2010-06-15

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Virtualizing Servers in Production

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The company where I work has been using virtualization in development, QA, testing, etc., for many years now. We have...

2010-06-15

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Maps in Reports!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been playing with SQL Server 2008 R2 for quite a while in the CTP’s and what not. But, I hadn’t made...

2010-06-14

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Blogs

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

By Brian Kelley

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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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS

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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database

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Hidden Heroes

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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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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