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 Saturday #39 New York

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...

2010-03-23

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Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...

2010-03-18

4,671 reads

SNESSUG March Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...

2010-03-15

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Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...

2010-03-11

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Location of the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...

2010-03-10

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Blog Anniversary

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...

2010-03-09

535 reads

MacGyver?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...

2010-03-08

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PowerShell for Batch Operations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...

2010-03-01

1,688 reads

Help with Learning Powershell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...

2010-02-26

1,397 reads

So You Want to Write a Book?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

What the heck is wrong with you?
Still interested? Fine. I’ll tell you my take on this whole business. I’m only...

2010-02-19

701 reads

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Why Database AI Agents need Layers?

Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...

Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199

This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...

T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem

By Koen Verbeeck

It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...

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