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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Database Fundamentals

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my favorite things about being a technologist is constantly learning new things, but, this can lead us to...

2017-06-15 (first published: 2017-05-31)

2,793 reads

DevOps and Visual Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The hardest part about implementing DevOps is not the tools you choose, but the processes you use to make DevOps...

2017-06-13

1,137 reads

Database Fundamentals #2: SQL Server Management Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The best way to learn any software is to start using it. There are a bunch of software tools in...

2017-06-12

1,106 reads

T-SQL Tuesday #091 – Databases and DevOps

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Implementing DevOps with databases presents a unique set of challenges. However, just because something might be hard doesn’t mean that...

2017-06-06

426 reads

Database Fundamentals #1: Install SQL Server

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

To get started with SQL Server, you need to install it. However, I’m not going to teach you how to...

2017-06-05

536 reads

Wanna Cry? Me too

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

I don’t doubt for a minute that on a certain level you’re sick to death of people talking about the Wanna Cry ransomware. However, bear with me, we need to go through it just a little more because it actually has some bearing on us as data professionals. OK, more than some bearing, it’s a […]