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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How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The very concept of the Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD) is predicated on the up-time created by having three active copies...

2013-05-13 (first published: 2013-05-07)

1,584 reads

Book Review: Business in the Trenches

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m trying to improve.
That’s at just about everything too. I know I don’t know enough or have enough skills to...

2013-05-09

735 reads

Windows Azure SQL Database Backups

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You can get backups of your WASD databases. But, if you want them to be transactionally consistent, you need to...

2013-04-04

926 reads

Execution Plans in Azure SQL Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Microsoft has stated pretty clearly that they’re putting code on Azure first, ahead of the desktop. Which makes one wonder...

2013-03-27 (first published: 2013-03-25)

3,637 reads

Laws You Break at Your Peril

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Laws of Thermodynamics
TANSTAAFL
Gods of the Copybook Headings
All magic comes with a price
Winter Is Coming
My adult years started with a pretty...

2013-03-20

862 reads

Star Trek and the Death of IT

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I feel slightly better, but only slightly.
I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix just to unwind my...

2013-03-18

1,127 reads

SQL Server Execution Plans

by Grant Fritchey

Redgate

books

Every day, out in the SQL Server forums, the same questions come up again and again: why is this query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? Grant Fritchey provides the only dedicated and detailed book on this essential topic.

2013-03-15

51,027 reads