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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Praise and a Suggestion for AlwaysOn

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my favorite additions to SQL Server 2012 is the Availability Groups, referred to as AlwaysOn. These things are...

2013-06-10

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Helping Database Administrators

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Let’s be honest. Database administration is not all that tough. Set up your backups. Test them. Get consistency checks on...

2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)

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Microsoft Teched 2013 Keynote

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome to Teched 2013
We’re starting off with some type of James Bond video. Chase scene with a really cool car....

2013-06-03

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Using PowerShell to move files to Azure Storage

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was searching all over the place to try to find out how to move files into Azure Storage. Most...

2013-06-03

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Painting the US Red

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We are bringing Red Gate, through the free SQL in the City event, to the United States again this year.
This...

2013-05-29

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SMO vs Invoke-Sqlcmd in Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working on a series of Powershell scripts for the pre-conference seminars on Windows Azure SQL Database that I’m going to be...

2013-05-28

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A Little Azure Fun on Friday

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You know how we’ve always heard that sp_msforeachtable and other similar undocumented functions may not be supported in future versions...

2013-05-24

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Azure does Powershell too

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Or, I guess it might be more appropriate to say that Powershell does Azure. Regardless, there are a set of...

2013-05-23 (first published: 2013-05-20)

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PASS Summit 2013 is Looking Cloudy

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

No, this isn’t some complaint about PASS or the Summit. This is an announcement that not only will I be...

2013-05-22

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Microsoft Lync Through the Web

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Get an invite to a Microsoft meeting? Are they using the new Lync interface? And, you don’t have a paid...

2013-05-21

783 reads

Blogs

Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running

If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...

Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations

By MarlonRibunal

Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...

Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion

By DataOnWheels

I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...

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Question of the Day

DBCC CHECKDB Limits III

On SQL Server 2025, does DBCC CHECKDB support Memory-Optimized tables?

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