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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Monitoring for Timeouts

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The question came up at SQL Rally, “Can you use Extended Events to monitor for query timeouts?”
My immediate response was...

2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)

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How To Speak At SQL Saturday Events

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS SQL Saturday events are meant to be a place to grow the pool of speakers, provide a mechanism...

2015-03-16

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Try It

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Grant Fritchey asks you to experiment, to make an effort, to just try it.

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2015-03-16

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Discuss

Speaker of the Month: February & March 2015

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s not a question of scheduling. I just haven’t been to lots of community events in the last several months...

2015-03-13

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Upcoming Events Where We Can Chat

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I get around quite a bit.
Next week I’ll be visiting three cities in Germany talking to user groups in Frankfurt,...

2015-03-09

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DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...

2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)

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No Such Thing as a DevOps DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Sjor Takes (b|t) has just barely started blogging, but he’s got a great post about a discussion he had with...

2015-03-02

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How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...

2015-02-26

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My First Board Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Parents, you know that feeling you get after you’ve brought home that brand new baby (or in my case, babies) where...

2015-01-30 (first published: 2015-01-26)

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Oh Look, A Horseless Carriage

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Never forget, we’re making buggy whips. And everybody we know drives little buggies and they need our buggy whips. We’ve...

2015-01-28

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Blogs

The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5

By Monica Rathbun

Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...

A Prompt AI Experiment

Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...

SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)

How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...

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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?

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