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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Docker, Git and DBATools

For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...

2019-11-20 (first published: )

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You Are A Coder

So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...

2019-11-04

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Well Trained Staff

I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...

2019-10-28

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Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running

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If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...

Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations

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Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...

Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion

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I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...

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DBCC CHECKDB Limits III

On SQL Server 2025, does DBCC CHECKDB support Memory-Optimized tables?

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