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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Query Tuning in Dallas

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Let’s have some fun.
This Friday, November 1, 2013, I’m putting on an all day seminar on query tuning. It’s set...

2013-10-29

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Monitoring Structure Changes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...

2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)

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SQL in the City, US Tour 2013, Recap

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Red Gate visited three cities this year with our SQL in the City event; Pasadena, Atlanta and Charlotte. I just...

2013-10-22

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Do Be a Gatekeeper

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I read this fascinating blog post called “Don’t Be a Gatekeeper” by Julie Zhuo. Please read that first.
It really resonated...

2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-09)

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PASS Summit 2013 Day 2 Key Note

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

KILT DAY!
Today we have to eat our vegetables and then get lots and lots of sweet desert.
Or.
Today we hear about...

2013-10-17

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PASS Summit 2013: Women In Technology Luncheon

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This year I was invited to attend the Women In Technology luncheon as a blogger. So I’ll be live-blogging it...

2013-10-17

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PASS Summit 2013 Day 1 Keynote

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I am liveblogging the keynote from the bloggers table at the PASS Summit again this year. Just keep scrolling.
Watching the...

2013-10-16

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Speaker of the Month, October 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...

2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)

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Azure Account and Spending Limits

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...

2013-10-08

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An Experiment Concludes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...

2013-09-30

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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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Forums

how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb

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i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...

SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained

By Chandan Shukla

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Question of the Day

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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