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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Ending My Time as PASS President

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

With the end of the year, other things are coming to an end as well. Tomorrow, December 31st, will mark my final day as President of the PASS organization....

2020-01-10 (first published: 2019-12-30)

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Why Don’t People Use Columnstore Indexes?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I saw this question on SQL Server Central the other day and had an immediate, visceral reaction. I know why. Now, before I explain my answer, please, let me...

2020-01-01 (first published: 2019-12-16)

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Fritchey Family Christmas Movies

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY YULETIDE! HAPPY HANUKKUH! Instead of something technical, let’s take a moment to just kick back and enjoy a few great Christmas movies. Now, let’s be clear....

2019-12-23

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Learn to Change

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.

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2019-12-21

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Distributing Jupyter Notebooks

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...

2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)

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Tracking CPU Use Over Time

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...

2019-12-16 (first published: 2019-12-02)

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State of Database DevOps Survey

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....

2019-12-06

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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...

2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)

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Your First Jupyter Notebook

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...

2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-19)

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