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.

Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
Website: https://scarydba.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
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SQL Azure Diagnostic Tool

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the CSS Engineers from Microsoft has released a diagnostic tool for SQL Azure. It’s worth a look. It’s...

2011-04-26

1,019 reads

SQL Azure Deployments

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You’ve set up your access to a SQL Azure site so you’re ready to go. Now how do you get...

2011-04-25

1,531 reads

SQL Azure Cost

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We’ve all heard the scary stories. A developer starts testing Azure and then suddenly gets a thousand dollar bill on...

2011-04-18

1,576 reads

SQL Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’ve talked to anyone from Microsoft recently you had to have heard the phrase “all in.” It’s been made...

2011-04-15

652 reads

Performance Tuning: Start to Finish

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The very first ever SQL Rally is taking place in a little less than four weeks in Orlando Florida. It’s...

2011-04-14

1,358 reads

SQL University: Index Usage

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Greetings. Welcome once more to the Miskatonic University branch of SQL University. Does anyone know where to buy some camping...

2011-04-06

903 reads

Meme Monday

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tom LaRock has an idea. Several people respond, not all well.

2011-04-04

626 reads

SQL Saturday #71 Wrap-up

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s over. It’s finally over. This year, unlike previous years, Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) was very good about delegating the work....

2011-04-04

770 reads

SQL University–Recommendations for a Clustered Index

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome, SQL University Students to another extension class here at Miskatonic University, home to the Fighting Cephalopods (GO PODS!). Never...

2011-04-04

1,241 reads

Supporting Large Scale Team Development

by Grant Fritchey

SimpleTalk

software development

With a large-scale development of a database application, the task of supporting a large number of development and test databases, keeping them up to date with different builds can soon become ridiculously complex and costly. Grant Fritchey demonstrates a novel solution that can reduce the storage requirements enormously, and allow individual developers to work on thir own version, using a full set of data.

2011-03-29

3,364 reads

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Grant Fritchey

SQL Azure Diagnostic Tool

SQL Azure Deployments

SQL Azure Cost

SQL Azure

Performance Tuning: Start to Finish

SQL University: Index Usage

Meme Monday

SQL Saturday #71 Wrap-up

SQL University–Recommendations for a Clustered Index

Supporting Large Scale Team Development

Blogs

The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images

Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic

Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic

Forums

Pay for Performance

My PASS Summit West 2026

Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server

Question of the Day

SQL Server Audit Failures