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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Excellent Blog List

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

For the one or two you that are not reading Buck Woody’s blog (and why aren’t you), you may not...

2009-08-12

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SQL Quiz 5: SANs Mirroring

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

My turn to answer Chris Shaw’s questions “Do I feel I have a reliable SAN solution?” and “Describe Database Mirroring...

2009-08-12

629 reads

Some Statement Start Times!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I thought I had captured statement start times within the DMV sys.dm_exec_sessions. I was absolutely wrong. However, this has sparked...

2009-08-11

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Microsoft Thrive

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was introduced to the Thrive program when my user group held a Thrive event back in March. Since then...

2009-08-09

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Active August #2

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Hrmmm… 198. Up four pounds. That just doesn’t seem possible. I did a tabata on Monday. I did have a...

2009-08-08

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Presenting “Understanding Execution Plans”

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS Application Development SIG is hosting a web cast next week on Tuesday where I’ll be presenting Understanding Execution...

2009-08-07

820 reads

24 Hours of PASS

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m fairly certain Jack Bauer isn’t involved with this new initiative from PASS. Just as I’m also certain I won’t...

2009-08-03

733 reads

Pain of the Week Webcast

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Thursday this week I get to hang out, virtually, with some of the heavy hitters of the industry, Brent Ozar,...

2009-08-03

520 reads

SQL Server Standard

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

PASS is relaunching the SQL Server Standard with a wholly new approach and format. I’ll put more out about it...

2009-08-03

712 reads

Active August #1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I like to blog about technical topics and community, not personal stuff. However, this is a community post. A number...

2009-08-01

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Blogs

Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art

I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...

Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026

I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...

SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces

By Koen Verbeeck

I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or...

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Forums

Script Task execution error with HTTP request

I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...

SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition

By Johan Bijnens

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...

URL Safe or Not?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

URL Safe or Not?

If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?

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