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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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer,...

2019-02-04

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Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here....

2019-01-29

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Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here. I’m going to start doing regular live events on...

2019-01-29

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All Day, Training Day at SQLBits

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s a somewhat late addition, but I have an all-day Training Day at SQLBits. It takes place on Thursday, February...

2019-01-23

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DevOps and Automation Will Eliminate the DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been reading about the death of the DBA ever since I first made the jump from full time developer...

2019-01-23 (first published: 2019-01-14)

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Critiquing Grant Fritchey: Circa 2008

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

For several years, I ran a regular feature on this blog, Speaker of the Month. I attend a lot of...

2019-01-22

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Get Your Learn On

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There is one truth that I can say about technology with an absolute certainty: It’s going to change. Get your...

2019-01-21

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PowerShell to Simulate Load

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Gathering metrics is quite difficult if there are no queries. So, if you’re working in non-production environments, but you still...

2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-07)

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Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...

2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)

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Redgate Reviews 2018, Predicts 2019

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Our boss came to us and said, “We need one more webinar to round out the year.” Well, we’re just...

2018-12-17

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Blogs

Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running

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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