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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SQL Server Central Guest Editorial

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

My second guest editorial is up at SQL Server Central. These are fun to do (especially the video) even though they’re...

2009-10-14

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Operations Manager Feedback

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re involved with maintaining Microsoft Operations Manager, you probably have a few things you’d like to tell the developers,...

2009-10-13

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Table Variables Are Only in Memory: Fact or Myth

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I keep seeing these concepts that have long been disproven, posted again and again on newsgroups as if they were valid information. The...

2009-10-13

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3 Weeks to the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS Summit is only three weeks away and I’m getting awfully excited. It’s not too late to register. Heck,...

2009-10-10

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Another Book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Well, part of one anyway. I wrote three chapters of Rob Walter’s new book, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Administration. I...

2009-10-10

544 reads

PASS Log Reader Awards

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Brent Ozar, Andy Warren and Jeremiah Peschka have put together a blogger award called the PASS Log Reader Award. I...

2009-10-08

724 reads

SNESSUG September Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We had a good night with 13 people attending. I ran unopposed for president of SNESSUG for my second, and...

2009-10-08

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Hey, ho, where’d you go…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Ohio?
I’m presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly minted MVP, Jeremiah Peschka (congrats again)....

2009-10-06

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Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...

2009-10-05

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Free Stuff and a SQL Server Standard Update

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Great news. We’ve managed to get one article all the way through the process. We’ll have our first publication out...

2009-10-02

717 reads

Blogs

A New Word: los vidados

los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...

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...

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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS

Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...

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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