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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ChatGPT Lied To Me

I’ve been seeing more and more noise about how ChatGPT can help with technical stuff, writing code, all that. Well, I wanted to know how best to set up...

2023-04-21 (first published: )

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Query Store Data Cleanup

Microsoft supplies quite a few knobs to control how Query Store performs data cleanup. You can set your cleanup various ways, and, they interact. Let’s talk about how and...

2023-02-22 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

The Cloned Database Size

I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:database file propertiesI now run this command:

DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone);
GO
When I examine the database file properties, what do they show?

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