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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Implicit Conversion and Performance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...

2016-05-03

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How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...

2016-05-02

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Customizing Your Azure Portal

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...

2016-04-27

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Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...

2016-04-21

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Payment and the Board

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...

2016-04-20

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A View Is Not A Table

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query...

2016-04-19 (first published: 2016-04-12)

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Query Store and Optimize For Ad Hoc

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I love presenting sessions because you get so many interesting questions. For example, what happens with Optimize for Ad Hoc...

2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-28)

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Views and Simplification

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...

2016-04-05

549 reads

Speaker of the Month: April 2016

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL POST!
Seriously.
My Speaker of the Month for April 2016 is Keith Tate (b|t) and his...

2016-04-01

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Do You Teach Azure Data Platform?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I offer instruction on the Azure Data Platform, and have for about six years, since shortly after it came out....

2016-03-29

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Blogs

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

By Brian Kelley

I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...

EightKB 2026

By Andrew Pruski

EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences I

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?

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