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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Measuring Query Execution Time: What Is Most Accurate

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Probably the single most important factor when deciding which query to tune, or actively tuning a query, is how you...

2018-08-28 (first published: 2018-08-13)

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Why I Love Extended Events, Reason 394: Customize Live Data

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There are so many reasons to love Extended Events that it can really be overwhelming, but, one more reason that...

2018-08-27

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Analyze Actual Execution Plan

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the many new sets of functionality introduced in SQL Server Management Studio 17 is the new option “Analyze...

2018-08-22 (first published: 2018-08-06)

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Actual Execution Plan Costs

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Why don’t “actual execution plans” have “actual execution plan costs”? This is a question and a myth I have to...

2018-08-20

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Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of...

2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-30)

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I'm Not a Lawyer, But...

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. If you don’t know about it, you live under a rock, are a very old school dba, here’s a reference to the law itself. If you’re working as a data professional, I’d strongly […]

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2018-08-06

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Youtube Channel Update: 3 August 2018

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve posted a number of new videos to the Youtube channel that might be of interest if you’re a data...

2018-08-03

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Databases and DevOps, Tools are the Easy Part

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Moving your database development, deployment and management into a DevOps methodology does involve choosing and implementing tools and tooling. Tools...

2018-07-25 (first published: 2018-07-16)

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