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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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

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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

597 reads

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

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

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

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2009-10-07

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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

3,205 reads

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

721 reads

Minor Celebration

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

A little cheap thrill for me. I passed 50,000 views on the blog yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has stopped...

2009-09-30

1,389 reads

Pre-Compiled Stored Procedures: Fact or Myth

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There’s a very common belief among DBA’s: Stored procedures are pre-compiled. I had someone tell me all about it just...

2009-09-30

1,911 reads

Vote for Mr. LaRock

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It is rapidly coming up on election time at the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS). Once more, a person...

2009-09-29

1,574 reads

Blogs

Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget

By Eduardo Pivaral

It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...

A Career of Memories

Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...

Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead

As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...

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