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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PASS Summit Tuesday Keynote – Part 1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Set up and and ready to go. Wayne Snyder is going to open the ceremonies and the key note will...

2009-11-03

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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 2

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Bob Muglia opened with January 13, 1988, when the Microsoft Sybase Ashton-Tate SQL Server program was launched. Apparently Bill Gates...

2009-11-03

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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 3

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Now up is Ted Kummert of Microsoft.
He’s giving us a good overview of some of the technology coming up. He’s...

2009-11-03

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PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....

2009-11-02

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More PASS Activities

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As if I needed more.
I’ll be sitting at the blogger table and blogging live (as live as I get) during...

2009-10-30

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I Started a Fight

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I had no idea, but evidently I started a bit of a donny-brook. Cool!

2009-10-28

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Snags With Profiler GUI

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Running the Profiler GUI against a production server is not something you should do. I’ve outlined my research into exactly...

2009-10-28

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SQL Server Standard, Volume 6, Issue #1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s alive! It’s alive!
That’s enough from Colin Clive.
It’ll be out for the Summit. SQL Server Standard lives again! Although, not quite in...

2009-10-27

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PASS Summit One Week Away

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s just a week and a couple of days before I’ll be hopping a plane for Seattle and the 2009...

2009-10-23

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Birds Of a Feather Lunch

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS Summit agenda is shaping up and it’s already looking to be much busier than last year. The latest...

2009-10-21

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Blogs

Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?

By Monica Rathbun

While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...

Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder

(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...

The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger

I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...

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Pay for Performance

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...

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

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Packing and Decoding Device Status...

SQL Server Audit Failures

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Audit Failures

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Audit Failures

If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?

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